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§ 10. Any person prosecuted for a penalty under this act may be arrested and held to bail 

 in the same manner as upon warrants issued by justices of the peace; and whenever a hearing 

 shall be had for any violation of the provisions of this act, execution shall be issued thereon 

 immediately, in the same manner and with like effect as is provided in section one hundred and 

 forty-three, article nine, title four, chapter two, third part of the Revised Statutes, and all the 

 provisions of the said sections shall apply to executions issued pursuant to the provisions of 

 this act. 



§ 12. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby 

 repealed. 



§ 13. Upon the appointing of such commissioners and the filing of the certificates thereof, 

 as herein above provided, the term of office of the present oyster commissioners, now acting in 

 the town of I slip, shall cease. (Laws 1878, ch. 142.) 



§ 14. The provisions of this act shall not in any way impair the right of the present owners 

 of oyster lots planted pursuant to the provisions of the act hereby amended. (Laws 1878, 

 ch. 142.) 



§ 15. The title of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 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 can not be 

 profitably followed as a business. (Laws 1878, ch. 142.) Amended Laws 1878, chapter 142; 

 section 9, repealed Laws 1886, chapter 593; section 12, see Laws 1857, chapter 167; section 11, 

 repealed Laws 1878, chapter 142. 



CHAPTER 384 OF THE LAWS OF 1879. 



AN ACT to regulate the planting of oysters in the public waters of the town of Hempstead, 

 in the county of Queens. 



Passed May 28, 1879. 



Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or occupy any portion of the public 

 lands under water in the town of Hempstead, in the county of Queens, for the purpose of 

 planting oysters thereon, without first having obtained the license so to use and occupy such 

 lands authorized and provided for in and by chapter six hundred and thirty-nine of the laws of 

 eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled " An act to regulate the planting of oysters in the 

 public waters in the towns of Jamaica and Hempstead, in Queens county," nor shall license 

 be granted to any person to so use or occupy more than three acres of such lands. 



§ 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



