352 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



§ 3. The natural growth of bed of oysters in the waters known as Little Neck bay in said 

 county, is hereby defined as being between low-water mark and a distance of five hundred feet 

 therefrom into the waters of said bay towards its centre, beyond which, in the planting of oysters 

 as provided in the first section of this act, the word " natural " in said section shall not apply. 



§ 4. Any person who, having planted oysters in pursuance of said act on natural beds of 

 oysters on any grounds under the public waters aforesaid, shall have until the fifteenth day of 

 August, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to remove said oysters, after which time said person or 

 persons shall cease to have exclusive right or control over said ground or beds of natural growth 

 of oysters, except as provided in section third of this act. 



§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately. 



(See Laws 1865, chapter 343; amended Laws 1870, chapter 93 ; § 2 repealed Laws 1886, 

 chapter 593.) 



CHAPTER 306 OF THE LAWS OF 1866. 



AN ACT for the protection of the planting of oysters in the towns of Islip and Huntington, 

 county of Suffolk, New York. 



Passed March 31, 1S66. 



Section 1. It shall be lawful for any person being an inhabitant of the towns of Islip or 

 Huntington, in Suffolk county, state of New York, and having been such for the period of six 

 months, to plant oysters in any of the public waters of the Great South bay, within either of the 

 said towns ; and upon complying with the provisions of this act hereinafter contained, he shall 

 be entitled to and have the exclusive ownership and property in all oysters upon the beds where 

 the same were planted, and the exclusive right to use the said beds for the purpose aforesaid. 



§ 3. Any person being an inhabitant of either of said towns, as aforesaid, may, upon comply- 

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

 shall not be lawful for any person other than the one who planted the oysters and his legal rep- 

 resentatives, to take away said oysters or to disturb said beds either by oystering thereon, or in 

 any other way disturbing said beds, under the penalty hereinafter provided. 



§ 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 town, 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. 



§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately. 



(See Laws 1869, chapter 468; amended Laws 1872, chapter 666; repealed as to Hunting- 

 ton, Laws 1880, chapter 240 ; section 4 and 5 repealed Laws 1886, chapter 593.) 



