I. - PERSONS FOR WHOM SUCH GRASS IS RESERVED

7308. 1 . The proprietors of the lands bordering the south side of the river St. Lawrence, below the city of Quebec, are and always hâve been entitled to eut and cure the grass on the beaches or strands thereof, between high and low water marks, along the front of their respective lots of land and farms, to the exclusion of ail other persons, and they may sell and alienate such right to any other person in the same manner as any other real right belonging to them. R. S. Q., 5537, § 1 ; 61 V., c. 40, ss. 1, 2.

2. The proprietor aggrieved, shall hâve an action for damages against any person offending against this subsection by cutting any grass ’hereby reserved to such proprietor, to the préjudice of such proprietor. R. S. Q., 5537, § 2.

3. In ail cases of difficulty, quiet and public possession, as had before the twenty-first day of Mar ch, 1836, shall avail and be maintained ; and nothing in this subsection contained shall limit the right of fishing on the beaches, as established and exercised before the said day. R. S. Q., 5537, § 3. See 591 Civil Code.