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to appoint some resident of their said county, who is well acquainted with
the situation and location of oyster beds, bars or rocks, in the waters of
such county, who shall aid the said board by furnishing any information
he may possess concerning the situation and location of recognized oyster
beds, bars and rocks in the waters of such county, and who shall accom-
pany the said commissioners and the hydrographic engineer appointed by
said board, but only within the limits of his county, in the making of the
survey of the natural oyster beds, bars and rocks, as provided by this sub-
title; the said appointee to receive a compensation of five dollars per day
when actually so engaged.

An. Code, sec. 91. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 89. 1914, ch. 265, sec. 89.

104. As soon as practicable after the first day of April, 1906, the
said Commissioners shall organize and shall at once proceed, with the as-
sistance of such person or persons as may be detailed by the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the United States Fish Commissioner, to
aid them in their work, and of such persons as may be appointed under
the preceding Section, to have laid out, surveyed and designated on the
said charts, the natural beds and bars, and shall cause to be marked and
defined as accurately a's practicable, the limits and 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 ac-
curate 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 purpose. And the said survey and report, when filed, subject to
the respective rights of protest, resurvey, review and appeal, provided by
Sections 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 and 121 of this article, shall be
taken in all the Courts of this State as conclusive evidence of the bound-
aries 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 tributaries
within the State of Maryland, not shown in the survey or resurvey to be
natural oyster beds, bars or rocks, nor within the neutral zones surround-
ing the natural beds, bars or rocks as hereinafter provided, shall be con-
strued in all the Courts of the State to be barren bottoms, and open for