32 SEVENTH REPORT OF THE SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS 
who is absent. The opportunities for doing this easily and quickly 
on the water without being observed are frequent, and it is 
believed prompt legislation is required to meet the trouble. It is 
therefore recommended that some such law as follows be enacted: 
SECTION 1. That, when a buoy is set anywhere on a line of 
division between two or more adjoinining owners, or marks the 
point of intersection of two or more boundary lines of different 
owners, any person claiming such buoy to be out of place shall 
not move such buoy without giving at least five days’ notice in 
writing to the owner or owners of such adjacent or neighboring 
grounds as are affected thereby; which notice shall specify the 
official number of the buoy and its claimed position; and it shall 
also name the day and the hour when he shall remove such buoy 
to its true position. And any person moving such a buoy with- 
out such notice shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ten days, or by 
both. 
The formal presentation of this law to the legislature at its last 
session was inadvertently omitted, and attention is again called to 
it, with the urgent recommendation that the law be passed. 
Honest growers approve of the law and earnestly recommend its 
adoption. 
LAWS. 
All the laws affecting the oyster industry, passed at the last 
session of the Legislature, will be found in the appendix. 
FINANCIAL. 
The financial statement for the fiscal year ending with June 30, 
1887, is appended. The reader will please note this date of June 
30, 1887, as the Commissioners’ Report in all other respects cov- 
ers transactions to Oct. 31, 1887. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
ROBERT G. PIKE, Commissioners 
Wititiam M. Hupson, of 
James A. BILL, Shell Fisheries. 
New Haven, Nov. 1, 1887. 
