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parties in interest shall pay each of said commissioners for such services the 
sum of five dollars per day and expenses for every day employed by them in 
such hearing, and said commissioners shall pay all sums received by them 
for such services to the state treasurer. 
Sec. 3. The governor shall appoint a clerk, who shall be confirmed 
by the senate; he shall be designated as clerk of shell-fisheries, and shall 
hold office for two years from the first day of July succeeding his appoint- 
ment; he shall perform all of the clerical duties of the commission, and make 
an assessment on all oyster grounds for taxation; he shall receive, as com- 
pensation for his services, fourteen hundred dollars per annum, in monthly 
installments, 
Src. 4, All the powers and duties now vested by law in the board of 
commissioners of shell-fisheries, except the assessment of oyster grounds for 
taxation, shall be hereafter performed by said shell-fish commissioners. 
They may also confer with the officials of the United States government 
with reference to plans for the destruction of star-fish. They shall maintain 
an office in the city of New Haven, and incur necessary incidental expenses 
not exceeding the amount of four hundred dollars per year. 
Src. 5. Said shell-fish commissioners shall be a board of relief, and 
shall meet at such times and places as they shall fix, and may adjourn from 
time to time till they shall have completed their duties. As such board of 
relief, said commissioners shall have and exercise all the powers and duties 
now conferred by law upon boards of relief of towns. 
Src. 6. Said shell-fish commissioners shall be paid the sum of five 
dollars per day and expenses for services rendered under the provisions of 
this act, but the amount paid for services, together with the expenses of 
said commissioners, shall not exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars in 
any one year. 
Src. 7. If such commissioners shall at any time require the services of 
an engineer, they may employ such engineer; provided, that if such engineer- 
ing work is for the determination of boundaries of oyster grounds of any 
person or persons, such person or persons shall pay for the same, and in all 
grants of grounds hereafter made, the buyer of such grounds shall pay all 
engineering expenses pertaining thereto, and that for any other engineer 
work the state shall not pay exceeding the sum of two hundred dollars in 
any one year; but any work upon the maps on engineering records con- 
nected with the commission shall be performed by an engineer designated 
by and under the direction of the commissioners. 
Sec. 8. No ground hereafter designated for the cultivation of oysters, 
ain the waters of Long Island Sound, within the jurisdiction of said commis- 
sioners, shall be surrendered to the state, unless such release is made with- 
out charge or expense to the state, and is approved by said commissioners, 
Sec. 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby 
repealed. 
Approved, June 12, 1889. 
