752 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 539]

interest of the grantor or assignor shall revert to the State as
if no lease had ever been made. If any assignment or any
interest created by this act is attempted to be made to any per-
son in such a way that the assignee shall become the holder of
more than thirty acres, one hundred acres, or five hundred acres,
as the case may be, according to the location of land leased
under this act, all interest of the grantor or assignor, in case of
such an assignment, shall revert to the State as if no lease had
been made.

SEC. 112. No person shall catch or take oysters with dredge
or similar instrument on any land held by lease under the pro-
visions of this act, without first having obtained a license there-
for in the same manner as is now required by law for dredg-
ing oysters on the natural bars in the waters of the Chesapeake
Bay. No steamer or power boat of any kind shall be used or
employed in catching or taking oysters in the waters of the State
with scoop, scrape, dredge or similar instrument; and the cap-
tain of any boat engaged in taking oysters by any of the above-
mentioned methods, who shall have on his boat any engine or
motor of any kind, whether attached to said boat or not, which
is adapted to or can be used in propulsion of said boat, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred
dollars. Oysters may be taken in the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries and all other waters of the State on leased bottoms
by the holders of such leased bottoms by dredging, scraping or
tonging with boats propelled by oars or sails only, at such time
as may desired by the holders of such land, between sunrise
and sunset of any week day between the fifteen day of Septem-
ber in any year and the fifteen day of June in the following
year. It is, however, specially provided that it shall be unlaw-
ful for any holder of land under this act to take up oysters
from the land so held by him during the closed season for the
dredging of oysters from the natural bars of this State, until
after he has given a written notice of, his intention so to do,
to the official in charge of the nearest police boat, in which
notice he shall name the week day or week days and the hours
between sunrise and sunset of such week day or week days in
such closed season during which he may intend to take oysters
from such land, and it shall be unlawful for the holder of any
such land to take up oysters from the land held by him at any
other times than those named in such notice. Any person vio-
lating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction
in any Circuit Court for any county of this State, or in the