136 FISH-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
SEc. 3. All applications, designations, papers and maps pertaining 
to any allotment or designations of shell fishery grounds within the 
area of the exclusive jurisdiction of the State, heretofore made by town 
officers, and all assignments of such grounds or of parts thereof which 
have not been recorded in the office of the town clerk or of the shell- 
fish commissioners, shall be left by the owner or owners, claimant or 
claimants thereof for record, and shall be recorded in the office of the 
shell-fish commissioners, or in the office of the town clerk of the 
town between whose meridian lines said grounds or any part thereof 
are situated, and they shall be so left within three months after a copy 
of this section sha]l be posted in the town clerk’s office of the town 
where such grounds are situated ; and upon failure to leave such evi- 
dences of title within such time, for record, the Commissioners of 
Shell Fisheries may order the alleged owner or owners, claimant or 
claimants, to appear before them at a time and place in such order 
named and show cause why said grounds should not be deemed as 
property of the State; and if such parties or any of them fail to appear 
as ordered, or, on appearing, shall refuse to produce any evidences of 
the title which they may havé or claim to have, or shall refuse to per- 
mit the same to be recorded, or if they shall fail to produce any evi- 
dence of title, or shall fail to show any reason for such failure to pro- 
duce the same, the grounds shall be treated, as against such alleged 
owner or owners, Claimant or claimants, as undesignated grounds be- 
longing to the State, and said commissioners may thereupon desig- 
nate the same or any part thereof as provided by statute. 
SEc. 4. The same fees shall be paid for recording or copying papers 
and maps in the office of the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries as are 
charged by town clerks for like services; and all fees so paid shall be 
accounted for and paid to the treasurer of the State for the benefit 
of the State; and one of said commissioners, or their clerk, shall 
have power to sign and issue subpcenas inall matters of inquiry before 
them. 
SEC. 5. Sections one and two of chapter seventy of the Public Acts 
of 1879, are hereby repealed, so far as they may apply to shell-fish 
grounds within the exclusive jurisdiction of the State; and section 
three of said chapter is hereby amended, so far as it applies to such 
grounds, so as to read as follows, viz.: When any designation of shell- 
fish grounds which are wholly or partially within the exclusive juris- 
diction of the State, contains therein a map thereof, or refers therein 
to such map lodged on file in the town clerk’s office, and the owner 
or owners of the adjoining grounds, so far as they lie within the exclu- 
sive jurisdiction of the State, do not agree as to the location of the 
