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CHAPTER CVIIL. 
An Act to Prohibit the Dumping of Mud and other Substances in 
Norwalk Harbor. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
SECTION 1. Every person who shall deposit or assist in depositing 
any mud or other substance, except oyster shells or other materials 
necessary for making oyster beds, in Norwalk harbor, or at any place off 
the town of Norwalk inside of a line running due east and west from a 
point due south a distance of one mile from Green’s reef government 
buoy, or who shall deposit any substance in any of said waters during 
the night season, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than 
five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. 
Sec. 2. Any Justice of the Peace in the town of Norwalk shall have 
cognizance of any complaint for violation of any provision of this act. 
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
Approved, April 25, 1882. 
