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port, when made to and accepted by said court, and recorded in the 
records thereof, shall be a final and conclusive determination of the 
extent, boundaries, and location of such natural beds at the date of 
such report. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to transmit 
to the town clerk of each of said towns a certified copy of said report 
so accepted and recorded, in relation to the beds of such town, which 
shall be recorded by said town clerk in the book kept by him for the 
record of applications, designations, and conveyance of designated 
grounds. Such public notice of said application to the Superior Court, 
and of the time and place of the return of the same, shall be given by 
said selectmen or oyster-ground committee as any judge of the Supe- 
rior Court may order. It shall be the duty of the selectmen of the 
town of Orange, and of the oyster committees of other towns, upon a 
written request so to do, signed by twenty electors of their respective 
towns, to make such application to the Superior Court within thirty 
days after receiving a copy of such written request, and said applica- 
tions shall be privileged and shall be heard and disposed of at the term 
of said court to which said application is returned, in preference to 
other causes. All expenses properly incurred by such selectmen and 
oyster-ground committees in said applications, and the doings there- 
under, and the fees of said committees so appointed by court, shall be 
taxed by the clerk of said court and paid by the State upon his order. 
Any designation of ground for the planting or cultivation of shell-fish, 
within the areas so established by such report of said committee, shall 
be void. 
SEc. 13. The selectmen of the town of Orange and the committees 
of other towns:shall, at the expense of their respective towns, proeure 
and cause to be lodged and kept in the office of the town clerk of each 
town respectively, accurate maps showing the boundary lines of their 
said towns in the navigable waters of the State, and all designations 
of ground for the cultivation of shell-fish heretofore made and that 
shall hereafter be made within such boundaries, and shall number said 
designations on said maps, and shall cause to be designated on said 
maps all natural oyster, clam and mussel beds lying within their sev- 
eral towns respectively, as the same shall be ascertained by said 
report of said committee recorded in said towns as hereinbefore pro- 
vided. 
Sec. 14. All.acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby 
repealed, but this act shall not affect any suit now pending. 
Approved April 14th, 1881. 
It will be important to recollect hereafter that while this act 
