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remain unpaid for more than sixty days after the same becomes due,
such lease or leases may at the option of said Board be declared void,
and in that event the land shall revert to the State and may be leased
again in accordance with the provisions of this sub-title. The said
Board may, at the request of any lessee, if it shall appear equitable
so to do, upon cause shown in writing, cancel his lease as to the whole
or a part of the lands leased. The Board of Shell Fish Commissioners
is hereby directed to submit a plan to the next Session of the General
Assembly of Maryland providing for the assessment of rentals for
leased bottoms in accordance with the value of these bottoms for the
cultivation of oysters.

1006, ch. 711, sec. 100. 1912, ch. 539, sec. 100.

102. For a period of thirty days after the said survey shall have
been completed, or after any area, shall have been opened to leasing
under the preceding sections, citizens of .Maryland residing in any part
of the State, who, at the time of the completion of said survey, or at
the respective times of the opening for oyster culture of the several
areas, as the case may be, may be owners of land having a water front
upon any part of the said areas so opened to oyster culture, shall have
the exclusive right to rent any land opened to oyster culture under the
provisions of this sub-title, adjacent to their lands. And for an addi-
tional period of thirty days after the expiration of the said period of
thirty days, all boatmen, residents of this State, who shall be engaged in
the business of dredging, scraping or tonging for oysters at the time of
the completion of the said survey, or at the respective times of the open-
ing for oyster culture of the several areas, or if said survey shall be com-
pleted, or the said areas shall be opened to oyster culture during the
closed season for dredging, scraping or tonging, as the case may be, then
the person so engaged at the end of the last dredging, scraping or tonging
season shall have the like exclusive right in the order of their respec-
tive applications, as the same may be received and opened by the Board
of Shell Fish Commissioners to rent any adjacent lands; provided,
that in no event any such landowner, boatman or any other person be
permitted to rent or acquire more than thirty acres, one hundred acres,
or five hundred acres, as the case may be, dependent upon the situation
of the land which is leased or acquired; and provided, further, that
no such riparian landowner, as is mentioned in this section, shall be
entitled to rent the amount of thirty acres, one hundred acres, or five
hundred acres, as the case may be, unless the water front of the land
so owned by him, if fronting on water within the territorial limits of a
county, be at least two hundred yards, or if fronting on waters in any
other place, be at least seven hundred yards. The owners of land
having a less water front than is mentioned above shall be entitled to
rent a proportionately less amount of land, dependent upon the length
of the front upon water within county limits or elsewhere.