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CHAPTER LXXII. 
AN ACT CONCERNING TRESPASSES ON OYSTER GROUNDS. 
Le it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
Every person who shall wilfully commit any trespass or injury with 
eel spears or other implements on any designated oyster ground on 
which oysters are being cultivated, shall be fined not exceeding seven 
dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, or both, for each 
offense. 
Approved, April 12, 1883. 
CHAPTER X€ViiE 
AN ACT AMENDING AN ACT REGULATING DREDGING FOR SHELL-FISH 
AND SHELLS. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
Section one of chapter one hundred and nine of the public acts of 
1881 (page 58) is hereby amended so that the same shall read as fol- 
lows: It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to use a boat or 
any other contrivance dragged, operated, or propelled by steam in tak- 
ing up or dredging for oysters, oyster-shells, clams, or other shell-fish 
in any bay, river, or other waters within the boundaries or jurisdiction 
of this State: provided, however, that this section shall not be so con- 
strued as to prevent the use of steamboats in taking up, or dredging 
for, oysters on private, designated grounds in any such waters by the 
owners thereof, or to prevent the use of steam excavators for deepening 
the water in places where there are no natural oyster or clam beds, or 
where such beds have not existed within ten years, by digging or remov- 
ing material, permission to use such excavators being first given by the 
Commissioners of Shell-fisheries, which permission shall not be given 
until after a public notice of at least two weeks of the time and place 
they will hear all parties desiring to be heard upon such application, 
which notice shall be posted in the office of the Town Clerk of the town 
where such grounds are located. 
Approved, April 26, 1883. 
GHAPTERVCXE 
AN ACT AMENDING AN ACT FOR THE DESIGNATION OF SHELL-FISH 
GROUNDS. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
SECTION 1. Section twelve of chapter one hundred and sixty of the 
public acts of 1881 (page 104) is hereby amended so that the same shall 
