358 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



CHAPTER 734 OF THE LAWS OF 1868. 



AN ACT for the protection of the planting of oysters in the towns of Gravesend and Flat- 

 lands, Kings county. 

 Passed May S, 1S6S. 



Section 1. It shall be lawful for any inhabitant of the towns of Gravesend and Flatlands, in 

 Kings county, who shall have been such inhabitants for six months immediately preceding, upon 

 complying with the terms of this act, to plant oysters under the public waters within their respec- 

 tive towns, and to have the exclusive property in the oysters so planted, and the exclusive use of 

 such oyster beds. 



§ 2. The extent of the land under water so to be used by any one person shall not exceed 

 three acres, and shall be distinctly marked out by stakes or otherwise; but such privilege shall 

 not be exercised without the written permit of the justice of the peace and the supervisor of 

 such respective towns, setting forth the locality of such premises sufficiently to distinguish the 

 same, the terms of such privilege, and the person to whom the same is given. Before granting 

 such permit, evidence satisfactory to the officer granting the same shall be furnished that such 

 premises are not a natural bed of oysters, and that they are not already occupied or used. A 

 copy of such permit, with the accompanying evidence, shall be deposited in the office of the 

 town clerk of the town where such premises are situated ; and such copy of the permit may be 

 used as evidence of the facts therein stated. (Laws 1886, chap. 593.) 



§ 3. Such privilege shall be forfeited by the person receiving such permit, if the same be not 

 actually used for such purposes within six months from the granting of the same, or if the same 

 be abandoned for a period of six months, or if such person shall cease to be an inhabitant of 

 said town, or shall die ; but in any such case of the forfeiture of such privilege, the owner of 

 such oysters, or his legal representatives, shall have six months thereafter to remove the oysters 

 alreadv planted in such beds. 



(See Laws 1859, chap. 62; sec. 2 partly repealed Laws 1888, chap. 573; Sup. Ct., 1883, 

 People v. Thompson, 30 Hun, 457.) 



CHAPTER 279 OF THE LAWS OF 1888. 



AN ACT to cede lands under water of Huntington bay, town of Huntington, Suffolk county, 

 Long Island, to the trustees of the town of Huntington, and their successors in office, for 

 the cultivation of shellfish. 



Land under water ceded to Huntington ; proviso. 



Section 1. All the right, title and interest which the people of the State of New York have, if 

 any, in and to the lands outside of and beyond low water mark under the waters of Huntington bay, 

 in the town of Huntington, Suffolk county, southerly of a line drawn from a granite monument 

 now set near high-water mark in the northerly point of Eaton's Neck, and west of the United 

 States Life Saving Station, to a locust monument now set on Loyd's Neck, which line runs on a 

 course south fifty-nine degrees, twenty minutes and twenty-five seconds west, and which is the 

 line claimed by the trustees of the town of Huntington as the northerly line of their grants under 



