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stipulate that the grantee shall, within one year from the date of their execution, plant not less 

 than ten bushels of oysters for each acre of said land on said land, or otherwise the grant shall be 

 void and the land so granted shall revert to the county. (Laws of 1896.) 



? 4. Anv and all grantees of land conveyed under this act shall, within three months from 

 the date of their several grants, have the deed recorded in the office of the county clerk of 

 Suffolk county, and thereafter said land so granted shall be held to be real estate in possession 

 of the grantee and shall be subject to taxation as any other real property. 



§ 5. All questions and disputes in regard to ownership, title, buoys, boundaries, ranges, or 

 extent or location of grounds, may be referred to and settled by the said commissioners of shell- 

 fisheries, who may summon before them all the parties in interest and take sworn statement of 

 facts as claimed on either side. From their decision an appeal may be taken to the county 

 judge, whose decision shall be final. 



§ 6. -Any person wilfully disturbing the bottom of the lands so granted, with intent to remove 

 or injure the shellfish thereon, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall, if said 

 disturbance be done in the daytime, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars 

 and confiscation to the state of the boat and tools so used, or by imprisonment in the county 

 jail for not exceeding three months or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of 

 the court ; but if such disturbance shall take place in the nighttime, or between sunset and sun- 

 rise, the penalty shall be a fine of not more than two hundred and fifty dollars and confiscation 

 to the state of the boat and tools so used, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding 

 six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. 



§ 7. Any justice of the peace in either of the said towns bordering on said bays shall have 

 jurisdiction over offenses under this act. 



CHAPTER 549 OF THE LAWS OF 1874. 



AN ACT to provide for the planting and protection of oysters in those portions of the Great 

 South bay, lying in the towns of Islip and Babylon in Suffolk county, wherein the taking of 

 clams cannot be profitably followed as a business. 



Passed May 22, 1S74. 



Section 1. It shall be lawful for any inhabitant of either of the towns of Islip or Babylon, in 

 Suffolk county, of full age, and having resided in either of said towns for one year next preced- 

 ing, by and with the consent of the oyster commissioners hereinafter named, and upon complying 

 with the provisions of this act hereinafter contained, to locate a lot, not to exceed four acres in 

 extent, under the public waters of the Great South bay, in either of said towns where the taking 

 of clams can not be profitably followed as a business, and he shall be entitled to and shall have 

 the exclusive ownership and property in all oysters upon said lot, and the exclusive right to use 

 the said lot for the purposes aforesaid. (Laws 1878, ch. 142.) 



