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An Act to punish and prevent the stealing of oysters. 1847 448 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0367 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE. hereafter be possessed of, or in-any wise entitled unto, or which shall bavo been or hereafter may be given, or bequeathed to, or in any manner acquired by them ; and may sell, alien, or in any other manner dispose of the same, or any part thereof, as the said corporation may deem expedient: Provided, That the fixed property of the said corporation shall at no time excod in value the amount of the capital aforesaid. 'Perim ot IV. And be itfurther enacted, That this Act shall be deemed a public Act, cherter. and shall continue of force for the term of fourteen years, and no longer. In the Senate House, the Feventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one tiousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and in the seventy-second year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. R. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate pro. ten. W. F.e COLCOCK, Speaker of the Hiouse of Representatives. No. 3024, AN ACT TO PUNISH AND PREVENT THE STEALING Or OSrns. I. Be it enacted, by the Sonato and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That if any person, or persons, shall feloniously gather, remove, take, or steal, from any 1enatty for te- Oyster bed, laying, or fishory, any Oysters, or Oyster brood, there growing, ling oymters. lying, or being ; such Oyster bed, laying, or fishery, being the property of any other person, or persons, and cultivated and used by the proprietor, or proprie- tors thereof, for the production, growing, and improvemet of Oysters, and be- ing sufficiently marked out, every person, or persons, so offending, shall be doemed, and held, guilty of Larceny, and he, she, or they, or his, her, or their, aidors, helpars, abettors, or aecessaries, being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be punished as in cases of Larceny at common law. II. That if any person, or persons, shall unlawfully, and wilfully, use any dredge, or any net, instrument, or engine, whatsoever, within the limits of any Vine for using such Oyster bed, laying, or fishery, as aforesaid, for the purpose of taking Oys- not,, &c. tors, or Oyster brood, although none be actually taken; or shall with any not, instruiment, or engine, drag upon the ground, or soil, of any such Oyster bed, laying, or fishery; every person, or persons, so offending, shall be held, and deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon being convicted thereof, shall be pun- ished by fine, or imprisonment, or both, as the Court may award, such fine not 448

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