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§ S. All persons now having oysters planted in the said public waters under the provisions 

 of any former act, shall have until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and 

 seventy-two, to remove the same, after which time all such persons shall cease to have exclu- 

 sive right or control of the lands whereon the same are planted unless such person or persons 

 again acquire the right to use said lands under the provisions of this act. 



§ 9. It shall not be lawful for any person to dredge for oysters in any of the said waters; 

 any person found dredging shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be 

 punished by a line of not over one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not 

 more than sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment ; and it shall be lawful for either of 

 said boards, in its discretion, to employ or pay a suitable person to prosecute any person or 

 persons violating any of the provisions of this act or any law relating to the planting of oysters 

 in the public waters of the towns of Jamaica and Hempstead, in the county of Queens. (As 

 amended by chapter 183 of Laws of 1887.) 



§ 10. This act shall take effect immediately. 



1 See Laws 1859, chap. 468; amended by Laws 1872, chap. 667. See Laws 1879, chap. 

 3S4 : sec. 5 repealed Laws 1866, chap. 593.) 



CHAPTER 667 OF THE LAWS OF 1872. 



AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "An act to regulate and protect the planting of 

 ■ 'vsters in the public waters of the towns of Jamaica and Hempstead in the county of 

 Queens," passed April twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 



Passed May 13, 1S72. 



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

 and Hempstead, in the county of Queens, and having been an inhabitant thereof at least one 

 year, to plant oysters in any part of the public waters of said towns, or either of them ; subject 

 however to the provisions of the second section of the act to which this is a supplement. 



§ 2. Whenever any inhabitant of either of said towns shall have proved to the board of 

 auditors of such town where the land applied for is situated, that he is entitled to receive the 

 same, by having complied with the provisions of the second section of the act to which this is 

 a supplement, it shall be the duty of said town board of auditors, or a majority of them, and 

 they are hereby required to give to such persons a certificate, as provided for in the third section 

 of the act to which this is a supplement, whether such persons reside in the same town where the 

 land applied for is situated or not; providing that where any person residing in one of said towns 

 applies for land lying in the other, such application must be made to the board of auditors of 

 the town where such land is situated. 



§ 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act shall be and the same are hereby 

 repealed. 



§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 



(See Laws 1871, chapter 639.) 



