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privilege and comforts of such act, the portion so selected by him shall be clearly marked 

 and defined by means of stakes or otherwise, as a notice to the public that it is selected and 

 occupied for the purpose aforesaid, and shall not be so planted or held with less than fifty 

 bushels to the acre, or at the same rate for less than one acre. If the person entitled to plant 

 oysters by having complied with the provisions of this act, shall not actually occupy the land so 

 staked out by him by planting oysters thereon within six months, he shall forfeit all rights and 

 privileges to the use of the same under this act. (Laws 1886, ch. 399.) 



§ 3. Any person being an inhabitant of said county as aforesaid may, upon complying 

 with the provisions of this act, plant oysters on the beds so designated and marked out. 

 (Laws 1886, ch. 593.) 



§ 5. 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 whenevei a hear- 

 ing 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 said section shall apply to execution issued pursuant to the provisions 

 of this act. 



§ 6. Any person entitled to plant oysters by having complied with the provisions of this 

 act, and any such person who shall have abandoned or ceased to use any such land for the 

 purpose intended by this act, for the period of one year, shall forfeit all rights and privileges to 

 the use of the same under this act ; and any such person who shall remove from the county and 

 cease to be an inhabitant thereof, shall forfeit all rights and privileges acquired by him under 

 this act after two years of such removal, which period shall be allowed him for the purpose 

 of removing the oysters planted by him and remaining on said beds at the time of his removal. 



§ 8. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, or any portion 

 thereof, are hereby repealed. 



§ 9. This act shall take effect immediately. 



(By chapter 93, Laws 1870, the provisions of this act are extended to the waters of Jamaica 

 and Hempstead bays. See Laws 1859, chapter 468, and Laws 1864, chapter 574. Amended 

 Laws 1866, chapter 399; Laws 1870, chapter 93. Section 7 partly repealed Laws 1879, 

 chapter 402. Sections 4 and 7 and part of section 3 repealed Laws 1886, chapter 595.) 



CHAPTER 399 OF THE LAWS OF 1866. 



AX ACT to amend an act entitled " An act for the protection of the planting of oysters in the 

 county of Queens, New York," chapter three hundred and forty-three, passed April eighth, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-five. 



Passed April 5, 1866. 



Section j. [Same as section 2, chapter 343, Laws, 1866.] 



