ART. 72]

TONGING.

1555

95. Amended survey. 96. Deposit by petitioners. 97. Assistance of county surveyor. 98. Crabbing sections to be designated on maps and charts. Exemption. 99. Assistance of steamer of state fish- ery force and deputy command- ers. 100. Leases — limitations thereof. Rent. Lease may be vacated. 101. When and where leasing to begin. 102. Exclusive rights of riparian own- ers and those engaged in dredg- ing, etc.; provisos. 103. Form of application. 104. Leases of remaining land to resi- dents of Maryland. 105. Application; fee. 106. Register of titles to oyster lands ; additional fee. Survey. 107. Relation of landlord and tenant — how far it applies. 108. Ground leased to be marked. 109. Limits of application of oyster law. 110. Prior lawful appropriation for planting, etc. — rights conferred thereby. 111. Rights of lessees. 112. Invalid assignments — reverter.

113, Oysters may be taken from natural beds between loth of April and 15th of May. 114. Lessees need not take out license. 115. Wilful removal or interference with oysters or stakes, etc; penalty. 116. Working dredge, etc., and casting haul, etc.; penalty. 117. Making boat fast to buoy, etc. ; penalty. 118. Additional penalty for violation of law. 119. Duty of state fishery force. 120. Application of revenue. 121. Annual report of commissioners. 122. Description of location of leased ground in indictment. 123. How location may be proved. 124. Productiveness of natural beds to be increased. 125. Superintendent of natural oyster beds. 126. Purchase and distribution of shells. 127. Control of state fishery force. 128. Limit of expenditures. 129. Survey and designation of clam rocks. 130. Rocks not to be leased; treated as natural oyster beds. 131. Boat to be rented, to guard bot- toms of Wicomico river.

Tonging.

1904, art. 72, sec. 1. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 1. 1900, ch. 380.
1910, ch. 413, sec. 1 (p. 205).

1. Any resident of this State desiring to catch oysters with rakes
or tongs for sale in any of the waters of this State shall first obtain by
application to the clerk of the circuit court for the county wherein he
may reside a separate license for every person to be employed on such
boat, and such license shall have effect from the first day of September,
in the year which it may have been obtained, to the twenty-fifth day of
April, inclusive, next succeeding; provided, that such license shall not
authorize the taking or catching of oysters in any creek, cove, river,
inlet, bay or sound within the limit of any county other than that
wherein the license shall have been granted; and that the boundaries
of the counties or navigable waters shall be strictly construed so as
not to permit the residents of either county to take or catch oysters
beyond the middle of the dividing channel; provided, that nothing in
this section shall be so construed as to prevent the citizens of Queen
Anne's and Kent counties from using the waters of Chester river in com-