Sec. 26-230. Speculation in ground prohibited. Illegally staking ground.
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Any person who applies for and procures any designation of a place for planting oysters, clams or mussels to be made to him, for the purpose of assigning the rights which he may acquire, for profit or speculation, and any person, other than the owner, the lessee, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the authorized committee or the selectmen, who stakes out or encloses any grounds in navigable waters for the purpose of planting or cultivating oysters thereon, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.