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CHAPTER 666 OF THE LAWS OF 1872. 



Passed May 13, 1S72. 



Section i. Section two of the act entitled " An act for the protection of the planting of 

 oysters in the towns of Islip and Huntington, county of Suffolk," passed March thirty-one, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 



5 2. Any person being such inhabitant of either said towns may use a portion of the land 

 under public waters within said towns, not to exceed two acres, and on which there is no natural 

 or planted bed of oysters or clams, for the purpose of planting oysters thereon ; but to entitle 

 such person to the privileges and comforts of such, all 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 no bed shall be so marked and defined 

 until the bed shall be actually planted by such person, and shall not be so planted or used with 

 less than four hundred bushels to the acre, or at the same rate for less than an acre. 



§ 3. Any person who shall have planted oysters on any natural growth of clams before the 

 passage of this amendment shall have two years from the date of this amendment allowed him 

 to remove the same, and any oysters remaining on such natural growth of clams beyond that 

 time shall become public property. 



(See Laws of 1866, chapter 306; repealed as to Huntington, Laws 1880, chapter 240.) 



CHAPTER 240 OF THE LAWS OF 188a 



Passed May 8, 1S80. 



Section 1. Chapter three hundred and six of the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, 

 entitled " An act for the protection of the planting of oysters in the towns of Islip and Hunt- 

 ington, county of Suffolk, New York," and chapter six hundred and sixty-six of the Laws of 

 eighteen hundred and seven-two, amendatory thereof, so far as said acts affect the present town 

 of Huntington, in said county, are hereby repealed. 



§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



CHAPTER 404 OF THE LAWS OF 1866. 



AX ACT for the better protection of the planting of oysters in the waters of Richmond county 

 and of this state surrounding said county, and to regulate oystering and clamming upon beds 

 of natural growth therein. 



Passed April 5, 1866. 



§ 5. Actions for any penalty under this act, brought before any justice of the peace, may be 

 commenced by warrant, and the party arrested and held to bail in the same manner as upon war- 

 rant issued by justice of the peace (and such proeess by warrant shall be deemed the commence- 

 ment of such action), and the same proceedings had as in civil actions commenced by warrant 



