PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 751

ing, scraping or tonging season shall have the like exclusive right
in the order of their respective applications, as the same may
be received and opened by the Board of Shell Fish Commis-
sioners to rent any adjacent lands; provided, that in no event
any such landowner, boatman or any other person be permitted
to rent or acquire more than thirty acres, one hundred acres,
or five hundred acres, as the case may be, dependent upon the
situation of tire land which is leased or acquired; and provided,
further, that no such riparian landowner, as is mentioned in
this section, shall be entitled to rent the amount of thirty acres,
one hundred acres, or five hundred acres, as the case may be,
unless the water front of the land so owned by him, if fronting
on water within the territorial limits of a county, be at least
two hundred yards, or if fronting on waters in any other place,
be at least seven hundred yards. The owners of land having a
less water front than is mentioned above shall be entitled to
rent a proportionately less amount of land, dependent upon the
length of the front upon water within county limits or else-
where.

SEC. 102. When the period of sixty days shall have elapsed
after said survey shall have been completed, and after the lands
beneath the waters of any area shall have been opened to leas-
ing under section 99 of this act, the Board of Shell Fish Com-
missioners shall endeavor to lease the remaining portions of land
BO open to oyster culture under the provisions of this act to
applicants, who shall be residents of Maryland, in the order of
their applications received and opened by said commissioners.

SEC. 105. The relation of landowner and tenant stated in
section 104 shall have all the incidents attaching to that rela-
tion as the same exists under the laws of Maryland, excepting
only the following particulars:

First: Land leased under this act shall be used only for the
purpose of planting and cultivating oysters;

Second: No right shall exist to redeem or purchase any land
of the State so leased;

Third: Any other modification caused by the provisions of
this act.

SEC. 110. No assignment or transfer of any interest
acquired by this act shall be valid for any purpose if made to
a non-resident of this State. If any such assignment is
attempted to be made, all interest of the grantor, or assignor,
shall revert to the State as if no lease had ever been made. If
any assignment of any interest created by this act is attempted
to be made to any corporation, or joint stock company, all the