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CHAPTER, CXaT. 
An Act amending an Act Establishing a State Commission for the Des- 
ignation of Oyster Grounds. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
SECTION I. Section three’ of chapter one hundred and sixty of the 
public acts of 1881 is hereby amended by inserting after the word ‘“ ap- 
plication,” therein first named in the ninth line thereof, the words ‘ or 
by any joint stock company or corporation organized under the laws of 
this State, all the stockholders of which are citizens of this State,” and 
also by inserting after the words “such assignment,” in the thirteenth 
line thereof, the words “or to any joint stock company or corporation 
organized under the laws of this State, all the stockholders of which 
are citizens of this State.” 
SEC. 2. Section four of said chapter is hereby amended by inserting 
after the words “ located as aforesaid,” in the nineteenth line thereof, 
the words, ‘‘ or such other place as the Commissioners of Shell Fish- 
eries, or a majority of them, may appoint,” and also by striking out the 
words ‘“‘ actual cost,” in the twenty-second line thereof, and substituting 
therefor the words ‘‘ sum of ten cents per acre, the estimated cost.” 
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
Approved, April 25, 1882. 
CHAPTISR IG; 
An Act relating to Shell Fisheries in the Towns of Guilford and 
Madison. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
SECTION 1. Any person who shall, with or without a boat, take, 
gather, or collect more than two bushels of oysters, clams, mussels, or 
shells, including any or all kinds of such shell-fish and shells, in any 
one day, from the West river, in the town of Guilford, or from the East 
river, or from the Neck river, or any part of either that is in the town 
of Guilford, or in the town of Madison, or from that part of the Ham- 
monassett river that is in the town of Madison, shall be fined not 
more than twenty dollars, or be imprisoned not more than sixty days, 
or both. 
Sec. 2. Any person who shall take, gather, or collect any shells or 
shell-fish by means of any kind of a dredge in the waters described in 
the preceding section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, 
nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than six 
months, or both. 
Sec. 3. No ground within the waters of the town of Guilford, or of 
the town of Madison, shall hereafter be sold, leased, staked out, or in 
