1594 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

required under this article. Nothing in this article shall be construed
to apply to Worcester county as to the taking or catching of oysters in
the waters of said county.

Past Offenses.

1904, art. 72, sec. 82. 1900, ch. 380, sec. 2.

84. Nothing in this article as repealed and re-enacted by the preced-
ing sections shall affect offenses committed in whole or in part before
their enactment, but all such offenses and all indictments therefor shall
be prosecuted under pre-existing law as fully as if the same had not
been so repealed and re-enacted.

Oyster Culture.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 83.

85. Any resident of Maryland shall have the right to plant and
cultivate oysters in the waters of this State; such right shall be exer-
cised in the manner prescribed in the following sections of this sub-title,
and shall be subject to the regulations, provisions and limitations here-
inafter set forth; but no corporation, or joint stock company shall be
permitted to lease or take up, or to acquire by assignment, or otherwise,
any lands of the State for oyster planting or cultivation. All natural
beds or bars shall be excluded from the operation of this sub-title and
no person shall be permitted to plant or cultivate oysters thereupon, or
in any way appropriate the same to his own use.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 84.

86. The board of shell fish commissioners of Maryland is hereby
created. The said board shall consist of three members, one of
whom shall be a resident of one of the tidewater counties of the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, another a resident of one of the tidewater counties
of the Western Shore, and the third a resident of the city of Baltimore,
and one of whom shall be a member of the minority party at the time
of their appointment. The term of each of the members of said
board shall be two years from the first Monday in May after his appoint-
ment. They shall be appointed by the board of public works of the
State of Maryland. No member of said board of shell fish commis-
sioners shall be in any manner interested in any land leased or taken
up for bedding, planting or cultivating oysters. The acts and duties
to be done and performed by said board under this sub-title may be
done and performed by two of said commissioners, and in all cases the
decision of a majority of the commissioners shall be binding. One of
said commissioners shall be designated by the board of public works
of the State of Maryland as president, and his salary shall be two thou-
sand dollars a year. The salary of each of the other commissioners
shall be eighteen hundred dollars a year. The said commissioners shall
be allowed to employ a chief clerk upon a salary of twelve hundred
dollars a year, and such assistants, not exceeding three in number, and