OTSTERS 2739

An. Code, 1924, sec. 143. 1912, sec. 121D. 1912, ch. 539, sec. 119D.

140. The Conservation Commission, in addition to taking such mea-
sures of conservation of natural oyster bars as in its judgment seems
advisable, shall purchase from the lowest responsible bidder; shell or
oysters or other material at such places and in such quantities as may
be needed for the purpose of restoring the natural oyster bars, and in
inviting proposals for such shells or oysters they may prescribe that the
shells or oysters shall be delivered at a convenient place for shipment,
or they may require that the said shells or oysters be delivered and
distributed by the sellers thereof on such particular natural oyster bars,
or parts of bars, as the Conservation Commission may be engaged in culti-
vating and restoring, and the Conservation Commission shall have the
power to cause such shells or oysters to be properly distributed on the
designated natural oyster bars, or parts of bars, under the direction of
the superintendent of natural oyster bars.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 144. 1912, sec. 121E. 1912, ch. 539, sec. 119E.

141. For the purpose of discharging the duties imposed upon it by the
four preceding sections, the Conservation Commission shall have the
same control and direction and be to the same extent over the State
Fishery Force, as is given to said Conservation Commission by section 112
of this article.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 145. 1912, sec. 121F. 1912, ch. 539, sec. 119F.

142. The said Conservation Commission shall in no case contract any
obligation or incur any indebtedness for the restoring and reshelling of
natural oyster bars in excess of money at the time of the incurring of said
obligation or contracting of said debt in the State Treasury to the credit
of the "Fund for Conservation of Natural Oyster Bars."

An. Code, 1924, sec. 146. 1912, sec. 122. 1910, ch. 424, sec. 120 (p. 216).

143. In any indictment for a violation of sections 129 and 130 of this
article, or of any other section thereof whereby it may become necessary
to describe the location of the particular oyster lot, it shall not be necessary
to set forth all the procedure required by law to locate said lot. It shall
be sufficient to use a formula substantially to the following effect:

"That A. B., on the ———— day of ————, nineteen hundred and
————, at the county and State aforesaid, being then and there a citizen
of ———— county and State of Maryland, did lease, locate and appropria-
ate a certain oyster lot in the waters of the ————, in the county and
State aforesaid, for the purpose of planting and cultivating oysters
thereon: that said oyster lot was leased, located and appropriated in due
form of law, as provided by chapter 711 of the acts of 1906, a plat and
written description of which is duly recorded among the oyster lot records
of the Conservation Commission of the State of Maryland, and the said
lessee has complied with all the conditions and terms of the said lease,
as well as the said chapter 711 of the acts of 1906, and the Conserva-
tion Commission of Maryland authorizing the same, and has planted
oysters and shells within the lines of the said oyster lot located and
appropriated as aforesaid: That afterward, to wit, on the —————
day of ————, in the year 19———, in the county and State aforesaid, a
certain C. D. from the said oyster lot, located, appropriated and leased