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110 OYSTERS. [ART. 72.
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96. Survey for bottoms for soft shell
or shedder crabs.
97. Board to have control of steamer
of State fishery force from
April until October.
98. Size of tracts of land to be leased
for oyster culture; term of
lease; rent; how payable;
void leases.
99. Leasing of barren bottoms.
100. Owners of land may have ex-
clusive right to lease their
land for oyster culture; pro-
viso.
101. Forms of application furnished.
102. Ten months after survey, land
remaining to be leased to
residents of Maryland in order
of their applications.
103. Application to be filed; fee.
104. "Register of titles to oyster
lands; " name of applicant to
be registered; application and
payment of fee to constitute
tenancy of twenty years.
105. Relation of landlord and tenant.
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106. Ground leased; how to be
marked.
107. Provisions of these sections not
applicable to land owned by
private persons.
108. Who may become lessee of said
oyster lands.
109. Exclusive ownership.
110. No assignment to non-residents.
111. When oysters may be tonged.
112. License not necessary for tong-
ing, dredging or scraping oys-
ters.
113-114. Penalties for violating pro-
visions of these sections.
115. Penalty for fastening boat to
State buoy, etc.
116. Further penalties.
117. Authority of State fishery force
to arrest.
118. Application of oyster revenue;
''special road fund. "
119. Annual report of shell fish com-
missioners.
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Culling.
1894, ch. 380. 1898, ch. 117. 1900, ch. 99. 1906, ch. 439.
7. All oysters taken from any of the waters of this State
either with scoops, dredges or any similar instruments, or
tongs or rakes shall be culled upon their natural bed or bar
whence taken, and all shells shall be returned to the bed or
bar from which they were taken, and all oysters whose shells
measure less than two and one-half inches in length, measur-
ing from hinge to mouth, shall be included in said culling and
replaced upon said bed or bar as taken; and the culling of
oysters taken as aforesaid required by this section shall be
actually made and completed before such oysters are thrown or
deposited in the hole or bottom of any such canoe or boat or
vessel aforesaid.
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