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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

penalty of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful
performance of his duty as collector, and the said collector
shall have full power and authority to collect all the corpora-
tion taxes now due and in arrears, as well as all such taxes
hereafter to be levied.

74. The said bailiff and collector shall attend the meetings-
of Commissioners whenever requested, and shall perform such
services as shall from time to time be directed by them.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 480.
AN ACT to repeal Sections 96 A and 96B of Article 19 of the
Code of Public Local Laws, title "St. Mary's County,"
sub-title "Oysters," and to re-enact the same, with amend-
ments.

St. Mary's Co.
Oysters.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 96A and 96B of Article 19 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "St. Mary's County," sub-title
"Oysters," as said sections were enacted by Chapter two hun-
dred and seventy-four of the Acts of eighten hundred and
ninety-eight be and the same are hereby repealed, and that
Section 96 A be re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as
follows :

Rights of
owners of land
bordering on
navigable
waters for
oyster beds,
etc.

96A. The owner of any land bordering on any of the navi-
gable waters of this State, the lines of which extend into and
are covered by said waters shall have the exclusive privi-
lege of using the same for protecting, sowing, bedding or
depositing oysters or other shell fish within the lines of his
own land, and any owner of land lying and bordering upon
any of the waters of this State shall have power to locate and

May locate
one lot of two
acres in waters
adjoining,
etc.

appropriate in any of the waters adjoining his or her lands
one lot of two acres for the purpose of protecting, preserving,
depositing, bedding or sowing oysters or other shell fish, and
any male or female citizen of full age of the county wherein he
or she resides shall have power to locate and appropriate and
hold one lot of two acres, and no more, in any waters in this
State not located or appropriated; provided thirty days' notice

Thirty days'
notice to
owner.

in writing shall be given the owner or occupant of land bor-
dering on said waters proposed to be located, that the owner
or occupant may have priority of claim, and if such owner or