ART. 72] OYSTER CULTURE. 1603

months after the passage hereof. The holding of any person who may
have appropriated any such land shall become void and of no effect in
law upon the expiration of the said period of six months from April 2,
1906, if no such notice of intention will have been given within said
period of six months.

1906, ch. 711. sec. 109.

111. The lessee of any land leased for the purpose of planting and
cultivating oysters shall have exclusive ownership of and title to all
oysters planted by him or existing on the land leased.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 110.

112. No assignment or transfer of any interest acquired by this
sub-title 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 sub-title is
attempted to be made to any corporation, or joint stock company, all
the 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 sub-title is attempted to be made to any person in such a way that
the assignee shall become the holder of more than ten acres, or one
hundred acres, as the case may be, according to the location of land
leased under this sub-title, 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.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 111.

113. It shall be lawful for any tonger, between the 15th day of
April, and the 15th day of May in any year, to take oysters from such
natural beds or bars in the tonging districts of the Chesapeake bay and
its tributaries, as the commission may mark out for that purpose, and
under such regulations as said commission may from time to time pre-
scribe; and provided, however, that said oysters may be sold only for
the purposes now permitted under the existing laws of Maryland, dur-
ing the season of the year above mentioned; and in addition thereto, to
persons engaged in the industry of planting and cultivating oysters
within the area designated by this sub-title, the same to be delivered
only upon lands which may have been leased under the provisions of
this sub-title, for said purposes of planting or cultivation.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 112.

114. It shall not be necessary for any holder of oyster land under
this sub-title to take out any license for dredging, scraping or tonging
oysters on any land so held by him, and oysters on such land may be
taken in any manner and at such times as may be desired by the holder
of such land as allowed by the existing laws of this State.