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any way granted for the purpose of planting or cultivating shell-fish 
thereon to any person or persons, or to any corporation, unless an ap- 
plication in writing, containing a description of the location, bounda- 
ries, and area of such ground, is filed with the Selectmen of the town 
wherein such ground is located, and the same published at the expense 
of the applicant, in the nearest weekly newspaper, at least three weeks 
before such application is acted upon by such town, and no grant or 
lease of such ground shall be made unless first approved by a two- 
thirds vote of a town meeting of such town, legally called for that pur- 
pose. 
SEC. 4. The powers of the oyster-staking committees of the town of 
Guilford and of the town of Madison shall cease on the passage of this 
act, and their respective powers and duties shall be exercised and per- 
formed by the Selectmen of the said respective towns, who, subject to 
the control of their respective towns, shall have charge of all the shell- 
fisheries and shell-fish ground therein not granted or leased to others, 
and each of said towns may authorize its Board of Selectmen to appoint 
‘two or more special constables, who shall have power to inspect and 
measure shell-fish and shells taken in violation of the provisions of this 
act, and to arrest any person taking, or who has taken and has in his 
possession, shell-fish or shells, taken in violation of the provisions of 
this act; and the said town shall provide for the payment of such special 
constables as they may respectively appoint, and may enact by-laws, 
not inconsistent with this act, for the proper protection and control of 
all the ungranted shell-fisheries and shell-fish grounds within the limits 
of said respective towns. 
Sec. 5. Informing officers in either of the towns of Guilford or Mad- 
ison may make complaint of any violation of any provision in sections 
one and two of this act, and any Justice of the Peace of either of said 
towns shall have jurisdiction of such complaints. 
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect from its passage, and all acts or 
parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
Approved, April Ig, 1882. 
CHAPTER CIT. 
An Act amending an Act relating to Fisheries for Shell-fish in Tide- 
waters and Rivers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
Section one, chapter twenty-three of the public acts of 1875 is hereby 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following, viz.: 
But the provisions of this section shall not apply to the designation of 
oyster grounds under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State. 
Approved, April 19, 1882. 
