OYSTERS. 2293

An. Code, sec. 103. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 101.

119. Blank forms of application shall be furnished upon reasonable
charges, to be prescribed by the board of the shell fish commissioners, to
any person desiring the same. All such forms shall be printed and shall
be substantially in the following language: Application for a lease to
the board of shell fish commissioners of Maryland. The application of
———— a resident of ———— county, in the State of Maryland, respect-
fully shows that he is a resident of said State; that he wishes and intends
to use the ground hereinafter described for planting or cultivating oysters.
He, therefore, requests that said board lease to him, in the name and on
behalf of the State of Maryland ———— acres of ground located under the
waters of the State of Maryland, which ground is more particularly de-
scribed as follows, to wit: (Described here.) Dated at ———— Maryland,
this '———— day of ———— A. D.

Applicant.

An. Code, sec. 104. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 102. 1912, ch. 539, sec. 102.

120. When the period of sixty days shall have elapsed after said sur-
vey shall have been completed, and after the lands beneath the waters of
any area shall have been opened to leasing under section 117 of this arti-
cle, the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners shall endeavor to lease, the
remaining portions of land so open to oyster culture under the provisions
of this sub-title to applicants, who shall be residents of Maryland, in the
order of their applications received and opened by said commissioners.

An. Code, sec. 105. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 103. 1914, ch. 265, sec. 103.

121. Any person who may desire to plant and cultivate oysters in the
area hereinbefore designated shall file with the Board of Shell Fish Com-
missioners an application substantially in the form prescribed in Section
119 of this article. The applicant, who must be a resident of the State of
Maryland, shall indicate plainly the location of the land he desires to
lease. The application shall be sworn to before a Justice of the Peace of
this State. A fee of five dollars shall be paid by the applicant to the Board
of Shell Fish Commissioners at the time of filing the application which
fee shall be returned to the applicant if his application shall be for any
reason declined. All applications for leases pending at the time of the
passage of this Act, but not then actually issued and in force, and all
applications hereafter made shall be advertised by said Board once a
week for four successive weeks in a newspaper published in the County in
which or nearest to which the area applied for is located, said advertise-
ment to describe the location of the area applied for and to give the name
and residence of the applicant, and the Board shall have no power to
issue any lease without such advertisement. Any three or more residents
of this State may within the period of thirty days after the last insertion
of such advertisement file a protest in writing against such application