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or assignor, shall revert to the State as if no lease had ever been made. If
any assignment of any interest created by this sub-title is attempted to be
made to any corporation, or joint stock company, all the interest of the
grantor or assignor shall revert to the State as if no lease had ever been
made. If any assignment or any interest created by this sub-title is at-
tempted to be made to any person in such a way that the assignee shall
become the holder of more than thirty acres, one hundred acres, or five
hundred acres, as the case may be, according to the location of land leased
under this sub-title, all interest of the grantor or assignor, in case of such
an assignment, shall revert to the State as if no lease had been made.

An. Code, sec. 113. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 111.

129. It shall be lawful for any tonger, between the 15th day of April,
and the 15th day of May in any year, to take oysters from such natural
beds or bars in the tonging districts of the Chesapeake bay and its tribu-
taries, as the commission may mark out for that purpose, and under such
regulations as said commission may from time to time prescribe; and pro-
vided, however, that said oysters may be sold only for the purposes now
permitted under the existing laws of Maryland, during the season of the
year above mentioned; and in addition thereto, to persons engaged in the
industry of planting and cultivating oysters within the area designated
by this sub-title, the same to be delivered only upon lands which may have
been leased under the provisions of this sub-title, for said purposes of plant-
ing or cultivation.

An Code, sec. 114. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 112, 1912, ch. 539, sec. 112. 1924, ch. 577.

130. No person shall catch or take oysters with dredge or similar in-
strument on any land held by lease under the provisions of this sub-title
without first having obtained a license therefor in the same manner as is
now required by law for dredging oysters on the natural bars in the waters
of the Chesapeake Bay. Oysters may be taken in the Chesapeake Bay
and its tributaries and all other waters of the State on such leased bot-
toms by the holders of such leased bottoms by dredging, scraping or tong-
ing with boats propelled by oars, sails or otherwise, at such time as may
be desired by the holders of such land, between sunrise and sunset of
any week day between the first day of October in any year and the first
day of April in the following year. An annual license fee of fifteen dol-
lars ($15) shall be paid the State Comptroller for each boat used in tak-
ing oysters from leased bottoms and the license number shall be placed
on the bow of each boat in figures not less than eight inches in length. It is,
however, specially provided that it shall be unlawful for any holder of
land under this sub-title to take up oysters from the land so held by him
during the closed season for the dredging of oysters from the natural bars
of this State until after he has given a written notice of his intention so
to do to the official in charge of the nearest police boat, in which notice he
shall name the week day or week days and the hours between sunrise and
sunset of such week day or week days in such closed season during which