32 FOURTH REPORT OF SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS. 
CHARGER Cir. 
AN ACT AMENDING AN ACT RELATING TO NAVIGATION. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
SECTION I. Section six of chapter nine, title sixteen of the general 
statutes (page 254), is hereby amended so that the same shall read as 
follows: Every person who shall place any material which shall tend 
to obstruct navigation in navigable waters, shall be fined not less than 
ten nor more than one hundred dollars; and such material shall be 
deemed a nuisance, and such person shall be ordered by the court before 
which the conviction is had to remove such nuisance within thirty days, 
and, on his failure so to do, any person may remove the same at his 
expense; but this section shall not apply to oyster beds that have been 
duly designated and set out for the purpose of planting and cultivating 
oysters thereon. 
SEC. 2. Nothing in this act shall prohibit the filling or wharfing out 
in such waters, between the shore and the harbor lines established in 
any harbor under the laws of this State. 
Approved April 4, 1884. 
CHAPTER CVIE 
AN ACT FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROTECTION OF OYSTER 
FARMING, 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
Chapter forty-three of the public acts of 1883 (page 250) is hereby 
amended so that it shall read as follows: Any person who shall wilfully 
deposit, or assist in depositing, any star-fish or periwinkle in any of the 
navigable waters of this State, shall be punished by a fine of not less 
than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprison- 
ment, not less than three months nor more than one year, or by such 
fine and imprisonment both. 
Approved April 4, 1884. 
