2*732 ARTICLE 72

'torial 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 119. 1912, sec. 103. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 101.

116. Blank forms of application shall be furnished upon reasonable
charges, to be prescribed by the Conservation Commission, to any person
desiring the same. All such forms shall be printed and shall be substan-
tially in the following language: Application for a lease to the Conserva-
tion Commission of Maryland. The application of —— a resident of

———— county, in the State of Maryland, respectfully shows that he is a
resident of said State; that he wishes and intends to use the ground herein-
after described for planting or cultivating oysters. He, therefore, requests
that said Commission 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 described as
follows, to wit: (Described here.) Dated at ———— Maryland, this

———— day of ———— A. D.

Applicant.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 120. 1912, sec. 104. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 102. 1912, ch. 539, sec. 102.

117. 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 114 of this arti-
cle, the Conservation Commission 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 Commission.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 121. 1912, sec. 105. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 103. 1914, ch. 265, sec. 103.

118. Any person who may desire to plant and cultivate oysters in the
area hereinbefore designated shall file with the Conservation Commis-
sion an application substantially in the form prescribed in Section 116
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 Conservation
Commission at the time of filing the application which fee shall be re-
turned 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 here-
after made shall be advertised by said Commission 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 advertisement
to describe the location of the area applied for and to give the name and
residence of the applicant, and the Commission 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 inser-