ART. 72] OYSTER CULTURE. 783

boundaries of the natural beds, bars and rocks, as established by said
survey, and they shall take true and accurate notes of said survey in
writing, and make an accurate report of said survey, setting forth
such a description of landmarks as may be necessary to enable the said
Board, or their successors, to find and ascertain the boundary lines of
the said natural oyster beds, bars and rocks, as shown by a delineation
on the maps and charts provided in this sub-title; said report shall be
completed and filed in the office of the Board in the City of Baltimore,
within ninety days after the completion of the survey of any County
Said Commissioners shall cause the same to be published in pamphlet
form, and transmit copies of the same to the Clerks of the Circuit
Courts for their respective Counties, where the charts have been filed
or directed to be filed, as hereinafter provided, the said report to be
filed by the Clerks of the several Counties in a book kept for that pur-
pose. And the said survey and report, when filed, subject to the respec-
tive rights of protest, resurvey, review and appeal, provided by Sections
S3, 94, 95, 96, 96A, 96B and 105 of this article, shall be' taken in
all the Courts of this State as conclusive evidence of the boundaries and
limits of all natural oyster beds, bars and rocks lying within the waters
of the County wherein such report and survey are filed, and subject
to the provisions of said Sections shall be construed to mean in all of
said Courts that there are no natural oyster beds, bars or rocks lying
within the waters of the Counties wherein such report and survey are
filed, other than those embraced in the survey or resurvey authorized
by this sub-title, and that all areas of the Chesapeake Bay and its tribu-
taries within the State of Maryland, not shown in the survey or resur-
vey to be natural oyster beds, bars or rocks, nor within the neutral
zones surrounding the natural beds, bars or rocks as hereinafter pro-
vided, shall be construed in all the Courts of the State to be barren
bottoms, and open for disposal by the State for the purpose of private
planting or propagation of oysters thereon under the provisions of this
sub-title, provided that the said survey or resurvey and report shall not
be so construed as to affect in any manner the holdings by citizens of
this State in any lot which may have been appropriated or taken up
under the laws of this State prior to the third day of April, 1906.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 90. 1914, ch. 265, sec. 90.

92. The said Board, in defining the natural beds and bars, shall
exercise its judgment liberally in favor of the natural beds and bars
and allow a reasonable margin of the barren bottoms, rather than
encroach on a natural bed or bar. The natural beds or bars shall be
bounded by straight lines, even though some portions of barren bottoms
may thus be necessarily included within such lines. All natural beds
or bars shall be surrounded by neutral zones 200 yards wide in the
Chesapeake Bay and Tangier Sound, and 50 yards wide elsewhere, to
be located contiguous to but entirely outside of the natural beds and
bars, which neutral zones shall be excluded from the operation of this