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line fixed by such map, or if the boundary between such owners is a 
town boundary and they disagree as to the same, one or more of such 
owners may apply to the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries who shall » 
thereupon notify all parties in interest to file sworn statements of facts 
and copies of maps as claimed by them respectively, and said com- 
missioners shall thereupon appoint a surveyor who shail take such 
maps and statements and lay out and survey the grounds in the vari- 
ous ways Claimed, and if any town boundary comes into question he 
shall ascertain and report upon such boundary as it appears from the 
maps and records in the custody of the respective town clerks of such 
towns. Thereupon he shall report his doings, accompanied with the 
maps or copies of maps found by him touching the dispute to the dis- 
pute to the Commissioners of Fisheries, who shall thereupon summon 
all parties in interest before them at a time and place to be named in 
the summons, and after a full hearing of said parties, with their witnes- 
ses and counsel, the commissioners shall establish the line in dispute, 
and cause the same to be located and marked by ranges and buoys; 
and the line so established shall be the true dividing line between such 
grounds, unless an appeal is taken to the Superior Court, as provided 
for in section two of this act, and said decision shall be there reversed: 
and the costs and expenses of such proceedings shall be equally divid- 
ed between the adjoining owners, who shall pay the same to the com- 
missioners upon the filing of their decision, and the same shall be ac- 
counted for and paid to the State treasurer for the benefit of the State; 
and the cases provided for by this section shall not be deemed includ- 
ed under section one of this act. 
Sec. 6. All expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out the pro- 
visions of this act shall be audited by the comptroller, and paid by the 
treasurer of the State. 
Sec. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions 
of this act are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
Approved April 26th, 1882. 
This act provides that all questions and disputes touching the 
ownership, titles, buoys, boundaries, ranges, extent or location 
of any shell fishery grounds within the exclusive jurisdiction of 
the State, may be referred to and settled by the commissioners 
upon the petition of any person interested therein, after due 
hearing of all persons interested, and their decision shall be 
final, unless an appeal be taken to the Superior Court of the 
county, within ten days after the decision has been filed with 
