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section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and shall in addition thereto be liable to a 

 penalty of twenty-five dollars for each violation thereof. 



§ 6. Article eight of chapter four hundred and eighty-eight of the laws of eighteen hun- 

 dred and ninety-two, is hereby amended to read as follows : 



ARTICLE VIII. 

 Shellfish. 



Section 180. State oyster protector. 



1 Si. Salary and traveling expenses. 



182. Assistant to protector. 



183. Salaries, how paid. 



184. Polluting waters. 



185. Garbage, et cetera, not to be thrown into Long Island sound. 



187. Taking oysters from Hudson river for replanting. 



188. Close season in Harlem river. 



1 89. Oyster beds protected. 



190. Xon-residents not to gather shellfish. 



191. Dredging and raking for oysters and clams regulated. 



192. Sale of lobsters under certain size prohibited. 



193. Oysters, how sold, in shell. 



194. Taking clams and oysters about Staten Island regulated. 



195. Taking oysters in South bay regulated. 



197. Leases for cultivation of shellfish. 



198. Limitation of preceding section. 



State Oyster Protector. 



§ 180. The commissioners are authorized to appoint a state oyster protector, whose duty 

 it shall be to patrol, under the direction of the commissioners, the oyster regions of the 

 state for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act and guarding the shellfish 

 property thereof, who shall have the same powers and duties with reference to shellfish as 

 given by law to game and fish protectors and foresters for the protection of fish, game and 

 forests. 



Salary and Traveling Expenses. 



§ 181. The salary of such protector shall be one thousand dollars per annum, and he 

 shall be allowed in addition his actual traveling and incidental expenses, not exceeding seven 

 hundred and fifty dollars per year. 



