File:Public documents of the legislature of Connecticut, session (1882) (14783193333).jpg

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Title: Public documents of the legislature of Connecticut, ... session ..
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Connecticut Connecticut. General Assembly
Subjects: Administrative agencies Public administration Public records
Publisher: Hartford : Printed by order of the General Assembly
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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running the meridianlines from points, where town division lines touch high-water mark, to the boundary line between New York andConnecticut. As soon as practicable the Selectmen of the shore townswere respectively notified to meet the Commissioners at aconvenient place on the Sound, for conference and co-ope-ration in determining the lines in which they were inter-ested. At these meetings, held from time to time duringthe summer, the interviews with the town officers werealways agreeable, and little or no difficulty was experiencedin promptly reaching desired results. The rule prescrib-ed by the first section of the act of 1881, for running theshore line afforded considerable latitude of interpretation;and while it was desirable to reserve for State jurisdictionall territory which could by a rigid construction be claimedunder the act, nevertheless, wherever it was found that aliberal interpretation would bring the selectmen andCommissioners to a ready agreement upon a line, the Com-
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1882.) SHELL-FISH COMMISSIONERS REPORT. 39 missioners deemed it their duty to establish such line asthe proper one. The longer lines will be found to runover shallow waters not suitable for cultivation. It isbelieved that the lines, as established, are acceptable toall the towns, inasmuch as no one has appealed from theCommissioners decisions, as provided by the act. Most of the points where the boundary lines betweenthe towns touched high-water mark, were already prom-inently and permanently settled; and in every such casethe commissioners and the selectmen, of the towns respect-ively interested, found no difficulty in agreeing upon me-ridian lines. Points between a few of the towns are unde-termined; but steps have been taken by authorized officerswhich will doubtless soon lead to settlements. The initialpoints of these meridian lines at high-water mark are asfollows, viz.: Between Greenwich and Stamford: on the main road toOld Greenwich, at the head of the Tomack Eiver, and on•th

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