784 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

sub-title, and no person shall be permitted to plant or cultivate oysters
thereon or in any way to appropriate the same to his own use; pro-
vided that nothing herein contained shall effect in any manner leases
actually issued and in force prior to the approval of this Act within
such neutral zones.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 93. 1914, ch. 265, sec. 93.

95. Such amended survey shall be filed in the offices of the Clerks
of the Circuit Courts for the respective Counties in which the original
surveys hereinbefore provided are required to be filed, and when so
filed shall be conclusive evidence in all the Courts of this State as to
whether the area embraced therein is or is not a natural oyster bed, bar
or rock, subject; however, to the rights of resurvey, review and appeal
hereinafter provided.

1914, ch. 265, sec. 94A.

96A. The Board of Shell Fish Commissioners may at any time
hereafter resurvey and re-examine any portion of the areas of the
Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in the State of Maryland for the
purpose of correcting surveys theretofore made by them, and if upon
such resurvey the Board shall find that natural beds or bars have been
incorrectly located, they shall prepare a revised or amended chart show-
ing the natural bed or bar thus resurveyed, and shall cause to be marked
or defined as .accurately as possible the correct limits and boundaries of
such natural bed or bar, and said amended chart shall be filed in the
office of the Board in the City of Baltimore within ninety days there-
after, and copies thereof shall be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of the County in which or nearest to which the natural bed or
bar thus resurveyed is located; provided that such resurvey shall in no
manner affect leases of a part or all of the area resurveyed, actually
issued and in force at the time of such resurvey unless the respective
lessees thereof shall voluntarily surrender their leases as hereinafter
provided, or shall forfeit their leases by non-payment of rentals as pro-
vided in Section 100, or unless the rights, interests and properties of
the lessees, under said leases shall be acquired by the State by con-
demnation proceedings instituted not later than January 1st, 1915, as
provided in Section 96C. The said Board is authorized to accept
voluntary surrender of leases of any lots within the area thus resur-
veyed and found to be natural beds or bars, and to refund to such lessee
the rentals and charges theretofore paid to said Board for the lot or
lots surrendered.

1914, ch. 265, sec. 94B.

96B. Three or more residents of this State may at any time before
January 1, 1915, file a petition in writing, alleging that five Or more
adjacent acres of natural beds or bars situated in the Chesapeake Bay
outside County waters, or one or more acres of natural beds or bars