OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 27 
Laws Relating to Shell-Fishertes. 
CHAPTER XOX VILE: 
AN ACT AMENDING AN ACT RELATING TO TAKING SEED OYSTERS FROM 
BRANFORD AND FARM RIVERS. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly 
convened 
SECTION I. Section three of chapter one hundred and four (page 328) of the 
public acts of 1878 is hereby amended to read as follows: No person shall take, 
gather, or collect any oysters or shells from the aforesaid rivers by using for 
that purpose implements of any kind, between the first day of April and the 
first day of October in each year. 
Sec. 2. Chapter ninety-nine of the public acts passed January session, 1879, 
is hereby repealed. 
Approved, March 10, 1886. 
CEVA PRIMER Evil: 
AN ACT CONCERNING THE DUTIES OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly 
convened : 
SEcTION. I. The State Board of Health are hereby authorized and empowered 
to investigate and ascertain as far as practicable all facts in relation to the 
pollution of streams and natural waters of this State by artificial causes, which 
in their judgment may be necessary to determine the sanitary and economic 
effects of such pollution, and may have power to enter upon lands, buildings, 
and premises, as may be necessary for their investigations, and may institute and 
conduct needful experiments pertaining thereto, and shall have power to summon 
witnesses, administer oaths, and hear evidence relating to such matters, and 
said board of health shall make a report of their operations in writing to the 
Governor, on or before the first day of December in each year. 
Srec. 2. The Treasurer of the State is hereby authorized to pay to said board 
of health for the purposes of such investigations and experiments, upon the 
comptroller’s warrant in such sums as the certificate of the board with proper 
vouchers annexed may certify from time to time, a sum not to exceed five 
thousand dollars. 
Approved, March 24, 1886. 
