The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-09
.0YSTERMEN INTERESTED
no OPPOSE CERTAIN BILLS WHICH
EFFECT NEW MAVEN HARBOR.

Meeting Held Yesterday TO Develop Plan
of ActiOn-Prominent Men Present-The
Chamber of Commerce the Originator of
the Objectionable Legislation-Mud
Flats the Land in Question.
A meeting of property owners along
the New Haven harbor was held yes
terday in the office of the shell fish
commissioners for the purpose of MAX
ing united effort in opposition to mat
tiers of legislation now pending before
the legislature which will, if passed,
transfer the title of large part of the
harbor to the town of New Haven:
Among those present We're: Captain
c. H. Townshend, George K. Town
send, and Captain James M. Townsend,
representative of the Smith Bros, j.
Smith q Sons and a number of others.
The property owners are greatly eX-
eroised over the proposed measure and
have retained Attorneys Watrous s,
Buckland to oppose it. ....
The following are the resolutions in
question::
A resolution vesting the title to GER
tain mud flats in the town of New Ha-
Ven.
Resolved by this assembly:
Section Whatever title or owner
ship may exist in the state of Connec-
ticut, in or to the shores and mud flats
below tide water in New Haven haT-
Dor north of the line hereinafter desig-
mated is hereby transferred to and
vested in the town of New Haven, to
be held and exercised for the public use
and benefit
| This grant shall not be construed as
affecting any rights of jurisdiction over
said tract by the state of Connecticut
nor any powers or authority of the
board of harbor commissioners of New
Haven harbor nor of the shell fish COM
mission relating thereto, nor any pri-
waite rights heretofore acquired in any
portion of said tract
Section 2-The southern boundary of
the tract herein granted shall be line
running as follows: Beginning at Kim
berly avenue bridge at the point where
the harbor line touches said bridge,
thence following said harbor line to the
point where it turns easterly toward
Oyster Point, thence running in a
straight line southeasterly across the
harbor to the most westerly point of the
sea wall in front of Fort Hale.
This resolution has been offered as a
substitute resolution:
Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives in general assembly
| conVened:
Section 1.-The title, right and inter-
| est of the state of Connecticut to SC
much of the tide water flats of New
| Haven and West Haven harbors as ex-
| tend between high water mark and the
| deep water of the New Haven and West
| Haven harbors in front of any public
| street, highway or park which has beer
or which may hereafter be laid out
within the limits of the city of New Ha-
| ven and which shore and tidewater flats
| lie northerly of a line drawn starting
| from the center point of West river al
| Kimberly avenue bridge in said New
Haven and thence running southeast tc
point $50 feet south of the extremity
of Oyster Point and thence running
southeast across said New Haven har-
| Dor to the extreme eastern point OF
Fort Hale park, is hereby transferred
and conveyed to the city of New Ha-
ven to be forever held in trust by SAID
city for public uses.
| Section 2-Every owner of land ad.
| Joining and adjacent to the waters Of
| the harbor of New Haven or West Ha-
ven, and lying westerly of Long wharf
| in said New Haven harbor shall have
the right to wharf out and fill in ovel
the tidewater flats in front of his up
| land to the harbor line, as established
by law, provided that he made proper
| compensation for the displacement O
tide water caused by the construction
| of said wharves or the filling in of sait
flats by excavating in New Haven har
Dor an extent equivalent to the tide wa
ter displaced, or by paying to the statt
sum of money equivalent in value tt
such excavation required.
Section 3-Tbis act shall take effec
upon it's passage. and all acts or part
of acts inconsistent herewith are here
by repealed.