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shall assist in detecting and prosecuting offences against the shell- 
fishery laws, shall be paid the same fees allowed to grand jurors in 
criminal cases, shall have the same powers as other officers to arrest for 
the violation of said shell-fishery laws, and shall hold such office until 
their respective successors are appointed and qualified. 
Approved, April 4, 1883. 
CHAREER, XIII. 
AN ACT RELATING TO SHELL-FISH GROUNDS. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
Every person who shall wilfully deposit or assist in depositing any 
star-fish, periwinkle, or other creature injurious to or destructive of 
oysters or clams, upon any oyster or clam bed, or in the waters above 
any such bed, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred 
nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not less than 
three months nor more than one year, or by such fine and imprisonment 
both. 
Approved, March 28, 1883. 
CHAPTER. LIT. 
AN ACT RELATING TO SHELL-FISHERIES. 
he it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened : 
SECTION 1. The Commissioners of Shell-Fisheries are hereby 
authorized and empowered to hire and take upon leases not exceeding a 
term of ten years, in the name and behalf of the State, any such plot or 
plots of ground within the State as they may deem necessary for the 
constructing, erecting, setting, maintaining, and protecting of signals, 
beacons, bound-stones, posts, or buoys to be used in designating, locat- 
ing, surveying, or mapping any shell-fish grounds within State jurisdic- 
tion. 
Sec. 2. Any person who shall wilfully injure or remove any signal, 
beacon, bound-stone, post, or buoy, or any part, appurtenance, or 
inclosure thereof, which has been or shall hereafter be erected, con- 
structed, or set by the Commissioners of Shell-Fisheries, or by their 
order, on the land or waters of this State, for the purpose of designating, 
locating, surveying, or mapping any shell-fish grounds, shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not less than seven nor more than one hundred dol- 
lars, or by imprisonment not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or 
both. 
Approved, April 4, 1883. 
