328 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



Section i. It shall not be lawful for any person to catch or take any soft shell clams for the 

 purpose of sale, or to sell or expose for sale any soft shell clams so caught or taken from the 

 bottom or shore of Port Jefferson bay, or of any of the public waters of the town of Brookhaven 

 during the months of May, June, July and August. 



§ 2. It shall not be lawful for any person to carry away or to have on board any vessel with 

 intent to carry away from the waters of Port Jefferson bay, or any public waters in the town of 

 Brookhaven, in the county of Suffolk, any soft shell clams caught or taken in said bay or waters 

 during the months of May, June, July and August. 



§ 3. Any person who shall violate either of the foregoing sections shall forfeit and pay a 

 penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. 



§ 4. Any person may in his own name, prosecute any offender for the penalty specified in 

 this act before any justice of the peace of the town of Brookhaven, and on recovery shall be 

 entitled to retain one-half of such penalty; and the other half, after deducting the expenses of 

 the prosecution, shall be paid to the supervisors for the use of the overseer of the poor. 



§ 5. This act shall take effect on the first day of May next. 



Filed July 13, 1893, in the office of the secretary of state. 



AN ACT for the protection of soft shell clams within the waters within the boundaries of the 



town of Smithtown, county of Suffolk, state of New York. 



The authority to pass this act is found in chapter 488 of the Session Laws of 1892. 



Passed April 25, 1893, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members being present. 



The board of supervisors of the county of Suffolk, at a meeting thereof, lawfully assembled 

 on the 25th day of April, 1893, at least two- thirds of all the members elected being present and 

 voting therefore, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to catch or take from the waters, 

 from the bottoms, or from the shores within the boundaries of the town of Smithtown, any soft 

 shell clams in quantities exceeding one bushel in any one day between the first day of May and 

 the first day of October in each year. 



§ 2. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell or offer for sale during the 

 months of May, June, July, August or September, any soft shell crabs caught or taken within the 

 boundaries of said town of Smithtown. 



§ 3. Any person or persons who shall violate either of the foregoing sections shall be liable 

 to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense. The penalty imposed in this act may be 

 sued for and recovered, with costs of suit by any person in his own name, before any justice of 

 peace in the town of Smithtown ; one-half of such penalty imposed and collected under this 

 act shall be paid to the person making the complaint, the other one-half to the supervisor of the 

 said town to be applied by him to the contingent fund of the town. 



§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Filed, July 13, 1893, in the office of the secretary of state. 



