924 ARTICLE 72.

$2. 50 for the recording of the lease, and $1. 00 per acre for the first year's
rent, all in advance, it shall be the duty of the Conservation Commission
to cause same to be surveyed and a lease issued.

The term of said lease shall be twenty years and the price not less than
$1. 00 per year per acre.

At the expiration of said lease, the lessee shall be considered as having
prior right and shall be given first consideration in making application
for a new lease.

1931. ch. 432, sec. 154D. 1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 77, sec. 154D.

154D. A lessee is privileged to cultivate or remove oysters so planted
on his leased area in any manner that he deems proper provided he has
complied with the law providing for the licensing of boats or tongers in
removing them for market or transplanting.

All the rights of a lessee provided for in Section 123 of this Article
shall apply to a lessee holding ground under this sub-title with the fur-
ther right to exclude all persons from crabbing, fishing with nets or clam-
ming upon his leased area.

If any part of the rent reserved under such leases shall remain unpaid
sixty days after same becomes due, such lease or leases may be, at the option
of the Conservation Department, declared void. In that event the land
shall revert to the State and may be leased again in accordance with the
provisions of this sub-title. ¹

Advisory Committee on Oysters.

1927. ch. 369.

155A. There shall be a committee of three persons to be known as the
Advisory Committee on Oysters, who shall be men of practical knowledge
and experience, engaged in the oyster business. One member of said Com-
mittee shall be a resident of each of the three Districts into which the
Tidewater Counties shall be divided, as hereinafter prescribed. Said
Counties shall be divided into three zones to be known as Districts, as fol-
lows: District No. 1, consisting of Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot Coun-
ties; District No. 2, consisting of Dorchester, Wicomico and Somerset
Counties; District No. 3, consisting of St. Mary's, Calvert, Anne Arundel
and Charles Counties. The members of the Advisory Committee shall be
appointed by the Governor and shall serve for four years from June 1,
1927, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, at such salary
as the Governor may fix, the said salary to be paid out of the Conservation
Fund until such time as the Governor shall provide for same in the Budget.
Vacancies in said Committee shall be filled by the Governor in the same
manner as the original appointments.

¹ Sec. 3 of ch. 432. acts of 1931. repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency, and sec. 4 provides: "That this act shall become effective upon
the sale by the Board of Public Works of the first $125, 000. 00 of the certificates of
indebtedness authorized by the act of the General Assembly of 1931 creating the
"Ocean City Inlet Loan of 1931 "