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grounds are situated, and no other tax or rental shall be laid or collected 
on said grounds, or the franchise of any person therein. 
Sec. 5. All expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out the provi- 
sions of this act shall be audited by the Comptroller and paid by the 
Treasurer of the State. 
Approved, April 26, 1882. 
CHAPTER CXXVI. 
An Act regulating the Deposit of Material in Long Island Sound. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
SECTION 1. No person shall deposit or assist in depositing any sub- 
stance except oyster shells and other materials used for making oyster 
beds, in any of the waters of Long Island Sound, within a radius of five 
miles from Southwest Ledge lighthouse off New Haven harbor, or in 
any of the waters opposite Branford. 
SEC. 2. No person shall deposit or assist in depositing any substance 
except oyster shells and other materials used for making oyster beds, in 
any of the waters of Long Island Sound, east of a line drawn due south 
from Penfield lighthouse, without the consent of the Shell-Fish Com- 
missioners, who, upon written request of any parties interested, are 
hereby authorized and required within a reasonable time after such re- 
quest, to designate and buoy out places off the respective towns on the 
shore of the Sound, where such deposits shall from time to time be 
made. 
SEC. 3. No person, during the night season between sunset and sun- 
rise, shall deposit or assist in depositing any substance except oyster 
shells and other materials used for making oyster beds, in any of the 
waters mentioned in the foregoing section. 
SEc. 4. Any person violating either of the foregoing sections shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more 
than five hundred dollars: and the boat or boats from which materials 
shall be deposited in violation of this act shall be liable to seizure, and 
may be proceeded against in the same manner as provided in section 
twenty-three, title sixteen, chapter four, part one, article one of the 
general statutes. 
SEc. 5. Nothing in this act shall apply to the construction of break- 
waters, docks or any work ordered by the United States government. 
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
Approved, April 26, 1882, 
