COURT.] PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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Orphans court or register authorized to take probat of all wills — 1831,

ch. 315, ...........

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Wills to be retained in register's office — 1831, ch. 315, sec. 16, .

1064

NUNCUPATIVE WILLS.

How made— 1810, ch. 34,* ........

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OYER AND TERMINER.

The governor empowered, on application, to issue commissions of oyer

and lerminer and gaol delivery for the trial of all crimes, offences

and misdemeanors whatever, in any county within the state — Nov.

1787, ch. 1, ..........

245

Fees and allowance to justices and ministerial officers in special courts

of oyer and terminer — May, 1781, ch. 24, .

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OYSTERS.

Any citizen of this state may locate and appropriate in any of the bays,

sounds, rivers, creeks or coves, not exceeding one acre in extent, for

the purpose of sowing oysters, or other shell fish ; and when so

deposited, &c. they shall be his rightful properly ; Provided, he

shall have staked or marked off, so as to be distinctly defined, the

said location, described in writing, under oath, and have the same

recorded in the office of the clerk of the county ; And provided

a/so, such location shall not obstruct navigation, &c. — 1829, ch. 87,

sec. 1, ...........

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Proprietors of the adjacent shores shall have right of pre-emption for

one acre of supcrfices extending along shore from low water mark,

&c. subject to the foregoing limitations, and provided the location

be selected and completed before the first of January next — 1829,

ch. 87, sec. 2, ..........

978

No person other than the citizens of the county, &c. shall be entitled

so to stake out, locate, &.c. — 1829, ch. 87, .....

978

Any proprietor into whose land a creek, cove or inlet may make, which

at its mouth does not exceed one hundred yards in width, shall

have the exclusive use of such creek, cove or inlet, for the depot

of, Etc.— 1829, ch. 87, ........

978

No exclusive use or selection of any oyster bar or bars, shall be autho-

rized or allowed by this act — 1829, ch. 87, ....

978

Catching or taking, &c. from any such depot, declared a misdemeanor,

provided the proprietor thereof shall annually deposiie a sufficient

quantity thereon — 1829, ch. 87, sec. 3, .....

978

None of the foregoing sections of this act shall be deemed to extend

in any manner whatever, to the waters of the western shore — 1829,

ch. 87, sec. 4, .........

979

Penalty of $50 for catching, &.c. any oysters that may have been

planted or deposited on the bed of any of the bays, rivers, creeks,

&c. of the western shore, without the consent of the person who

planted, &c. — 1829, ch. 87, sec. 5, .....

979

See 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 2, sec. 13.