330 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



AN ACT to regulate the taking of jingle and quarterdeck shells from the public grounds in the 

 waters of Suffolk county, for the purpose of transportation and sale, and to protect and pre- 

 serve the business of taking said shells in said waters to the inhabitants of said county. • 



The authority to pass this resolution is found in chapter thirty-one of the general laws, and 

 the acts amendatory thereof. 



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

 twenty-fourth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, at least two-thirds of all the mem- 

 bers elected being present and voting therefor, do enact as follows : 



Section r. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to take from the public grounds in 

 the waters of Suffolk county, during the months of July, August and September, by dredging, 

 raking or in any other manner, any jingle or quarterdeck shells for the purpose of transportation 

 and sale. 



§ 2. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of the foregoing section shall be 

 liable for each offense to a penalty of twenty-five dollars, or to imprisonment in the county 

 jail for not less than ten nor more than twenty-five days, in the discrection of the court. 



§ 3. It shall not be lawful for any person not an inhabitant of the county of Suffolk, to take 

 from the public grounds in the waters of said county, at any time by dredging, raking or in any 

 other manner, any jingle, quarterdeck or other shells for the purpose of transportation and 

 sale. 



§ 4. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of the foregoing section shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, 

 or to imprisonment in the county jail for not less than twenty nor more than fifty days, in the 

 discretion of the court. 



§ 5. Any overseer of the poor of any town bordering upon the waters where any offense 

 under this act is committed, shall prosecute for and recover the penalties specified for any viola- 

 tions of the provisions of this act, such penalties to be applied to the support of the poor of 

 the town in which such overseer shall reside. In case such overseer shall refuse or neglect for 

 a period of ten days to prosecute, then any person who is an inhabitant of said county may prose- 

 cute for and recover any such penalties in his own name, and may retain one-half thereof ; the 

 other half, after deducting the one-half of the expenses of the prosecution, shall be paid fo the 

 overseer of the poor of the town where such person resides, for the support of the poor of 

 said town. 



§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Filed, July thirteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, in the office of the secretary of state. 



AN ACT to regulate the taking of shad in the Nissequogue river within the boundaries of 

 the town of Smithtown. 



The authority to pass this act is found in chapter four hundred and eighty-eight of the 

 laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, amended by laws of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 three, chapter five hundred and seventy-three. 



