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CHAP TER (CxXecxII: 
AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT OF MUD AND OTHER MATERIAL 
FROM HARBORS. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
SECTION I. The Shell-Fish Commissioners shall appoint one or more 
suitable persons whose duty it shall be to accompany every boat when 
it is employed in towing or carrying mud or other material, except that 
used in making oyster beds, to be dumped out of New Haven harbor, to 
see that such mud or other material is properly dumped on the dumping 
grounds designated by said Commissioners, and nowhere else, and to 
report to said Commissioners any violation of law in respect to such 
dumping; and any person in charge of any such boat, who shall refuse 
to permit any such person appointed as aforesaid to enter and remain 
upon said boat while it is so employed shall be punished by a fine of 
not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or impris- 
oned not less than two nor more than six months; and the boat on 
which such mud or other material shall be carried without such person 
appointed by the Commissioners as aforesaid shall be liable to seizure, 
and may be' proceeded against in the manner provided in section 
twenty-three, of article one, part one, chapter four, title sixteen, of the 
general statutes (page 217). 
SEC. 2. Every person about to engage in removing mud or other 
material, as aforesaid, shall notify the Shell-fish Commissioners, or some 
person appointed by them as aforesaid, by a written or printed notice 
deposited in the post office of New Haven, post-paid, stating the time 
when such work will be commenced, and the name of the boat or boats 
to be employed ; and any person so engaged who shall not comply with 
the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less 
than two nor more than six months. 
SEC. 3. The person so appointed to accompany such boat shall be 
allowed a sum not exceeding two and one-half dollars per day for such 
service, to be paid by said Commissioners and charged as other expenses 
of said commission. 
SEC. 4. Whenever it shall be brought to the notice of the Shell-fish 
Commissioners that mud or any other material is being removed from 
any of the harbors of this State where oyster grounds have been located 
or designated, it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to locate a 
dumping ground for such mud or other material, and to appoint a 
suitable person or persons to accompany every boat when employed in 
towing or carrying the same under the same limitations and restrictions 
as imposed by the several sections of this act in reference to New 
Haven harbor. 
Approved, May 3, 1883. 
