OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 29 
Sec, 2. The towns of Clinton and Madison may appoint at annual or special 
town meetings two or more special constables who shall have power to inspect 
and measure shell-fish and shells taken by any person in one day from the por- 
tion of Hammonassett river over which such constables have supervision, 
authority and control as hereinafter provided, and to arrest, without warrant, 
within such portion of said river, or within the town to which the officer making 
the arrest belongs, any person found violating this act, or who has in his pos- 
session shell-fish or shells taken, gathered, or collected by him within said lim- 
its in violation of this act. Said towns shall respectively provide for the payment 
of such special constables as shall be appointed. 
Src. 3. It shall be the duty of such special constables to inquire after, and of 
all informing officers of either of said towns to inquire after and prosecute, any 
violations of this act. For the purpose of enforcing the same, special consta- 
bles appointed as herein provided, and grand jurors and justices of the peace in 
either of said towns, shall have supervision, authority, control, and jurisdiction 
over that part of Hammonassett river lying above a line running across said 
river at the mouth of Dudley’s creek, and perpendicular to the course of the 
river, and of offenses under this act committed within said limits in the same 
way and to the same extent as though such portion of said river was within the 
town to which such constables, grand jurors, or justices of the peace belong, 
and the officers and authorities of the town of Clinton shall have supervision, 
authority, control, and jurisdiction over the remaining portion of said Ham- 
monassett river. The accused shall be allowed to appeal as in other cases 
brought before such justices of the peace. 
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from the date of its approval, and shall not 
in any way affect the rights of the town of Madison, created by or claimed 
under the act establishing the line between the towns of Guilford and Killing- 
worth, passed in December, 1790. 
Approved, April g, 1886. 
CLAP IE EXO 
AN ACT IN RELATION TO VHE TAXATION OF OYSTER GROUNDS WITHIN STATE 
JURISDICTION, 
Be it enacted by the Senate and [House of Representatives in General Assembly 
convened « 
The Commissioners of Shell-Fisheries are hereby authorized and empowered 
to file, at any time, a notice of any tax heretofore laid, or which may be hereafter 
laid, upon any oyster ground within State jurisdiction, in the Town Clerk’s 
office of the town between whose meridian lines such oyster ground, or any 
part thereof, may be situated, such notice to contain a description of such 
ground, the amount of tax laid thereon, the year and day when it became pay- 
able, and the name or names of the owner or owners thereof; and such tax shall 
be a lien upon such ground from the time of filing such notice, as herein pro- 
vided, until such tax is fully paid. 
Approved, April 9, 1886. 
