28 SIXTH REPORT OF THE SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS 
CLEAR WE RoI 
AN ACT CONCERNING THE TAKING OF OYSTERS IN ALEWIVE COVE. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly 
convened - 
Any person or persons who shall take any oysters from the waters of Alewive 
Cove, so called, in the town of New London, between the first day of March 
and the first day of December in each year, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars 
and the costs of prosecution. This act shall not apply to the owners of oyster 
grounds that have been designated and set out to them in said cove under the 
laws of this State, but they shall have the right and privilege to plant and 
cultivate oysters on their said grounds and remove them at any time. 
Approved, March 16, 1886. 
CHAP ERE: 
AN ACT RELATING TO OYSTER GROUNDS WITHIN STATE JURISDICTION. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly 
convened « 
All transfers of title to oyster grounds within State jurisdiction, which may 
hereafter be made, shall be recorded in the record books of the Commissioners 
of Shell Fisheries; and it shall be the duty of the person, persons, or corporation 
making such transfer to cause such record to be made forthwith; or in lieu 
thereof, to forthwith give written notice of such transfer to the said com- 
missioners, stating the date thereof, the name of the transferee or transferees, 
and the description of the grounds affected thereby; and upon the failure to 
make such record, or to give such notice, the person, persons, or corporation 
making such transfer shall be deemed and treated by said commissioners, for 
all purposes of taxation, to be the owner or owners thereof, notwithstanding 
such transfer; and shall be liable for and shall pay all such tax¢s as may be laid 
on such land by said commissioners at any time before such record is made or 
said notice is given; and such tax shall be a lien on such grounds. 
Approved, March 16, 1886. 
GEEME IVE Ra Coxaville 
AN ACT TO PROTECT SHELL-FISH IN THE HAMMONASSETT RIVER, 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly 
convened 
SECTION I. Any person who shall in any one day take, gather, or collect 
more than two bushels of oysters, clams, mussels, and shells, or more than two 
bushels of any of them, from any portion of Hammonassett river not desig- 
nated for planting shell-fish, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars or be 
imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both. 
