Sec. 28. And be it enacted. That all moneys
arising from the sale of licenses or from fines, penal-
ties and forfeitures imposed under this Article shall
by the Comptroller be paid into the Treasury and
placed to the credit of the oyster fund, and the
Comptroller is hereby required to state in his an-
nual report particularly the receipts and expendi-
tures on account of said fund and the balance
standing to the credit of the State at the time of
making such report.

Disposition
of sales of Li-
censes, &c,

Sec. 29. And be it enacted, That the owner or
owners of any land bordering on any of the navi-
gable waters of this State, the lines of which ex-
extend into and are covered by the said waters,
shall have the exclusive privilege of sowing, bed-
ding or depositing oysters or other shell fish within
the lines of their own land, and any owner or own-
ers of land lying and bordering upon any of the
waters of this State shall have power to locate and
appropriate in any of the waters adjoining his, her
or their land five acres for the purpose of preserv-
ing, depositing, bedding or sowing oysters or
other shell fish, and that any other citizen of the
county shall have power to locate and appropriate
five acres in any waters in said county not located
or appropriated by the first day of January, 1868;

Owners to
have right of
bedding, &c.

provided, that the said location or appropriation
shall be described by stakes, bushes or other pro-
per and visible marks or metes and bounds, which
description shall be reduced to writing under the
oath of some competent surveyor and recorded at
the expense of the party locating or appropriating
the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for the county wherein such land may be
located; and provided also, that such location and
appropriation shall not injure, obstruct or impede
the free navigation of such waters, but no such
location and appropriation shall interfere with the
rights reserved by sections twenty-eight and twen-
ty-nine of this Article; provided, that no natural
bar or bed of oysters shall be located or appro-
priated.

Provisos.

Sec. 30. And be it enacted, That if any creek,
cove or inlet not exceeding one hundred yards in
breadth at its mouth make into the land or lands,
the owner or owners or oilier lawful occupant or
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Exclusive
rights of ow-
ners of land.