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beds, the Conservation Commission shall have the power to cause the
said shells to be taken from the place at which they are delivered to the said
superintendent of natural beds to the said natural beds, and to cause the
said shells to be there, under the superintendent, or the superintendent of
natural oyster beds, properly distributed on the bed or beds, which the
Conservation Commission may then be engaged in re-shelling.
See notes to sec. 145.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 151. 1912, sec. 127. 1910, ch. 735, sec. 123 (p. 214).

148. For the purpose of discharging the duties imposed upon them
by sections 145 to 149, the Conservation Commission shall have the same
control and direction and to the same extent over the state fishery force,
as is given to the said Conservation Commission by section 112 of this
article for the purpose of performing the duties imposed upon the Con-
servation Commission by chapter 711 of the acts of 1906.
As to the state fishery force, see sec. 37, et seq. See notes to sec. 145:

An. Code, 1924, sec. 152. 1912, sec. 128. 1910, ch. 735, sec. 124 (p. 214).

149. The said Conservation Commission shall in no case contract
any obligation or incur any indebtedness 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 natural oyster re-shelling fund.
See notes to sec. 145.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 153. 1912, sec. 129. 1908, ch. 590, sec. 1.

150. It shall be the duty of the Conservation Commission, as soon
after April 6, 1908, as practicable, to have laid out, surveyed and desig-
nated on charts provided for such purpose, gravel rock, ware rock and
flat rock, being clam rocks located in the waters of Pocomoke sound, in
Somerset County, and State of Maryland, and shall cause to be marked
and defined as accurately as practicable the limits and boundaries of each
of the above named rocks, and they shall take true and accurate notes of
said survey and mark the report and perform all other duties connected
with said survey as said duties are prescribed by chapter 711 of the acts
of the general assembly of Maryland of 1906, pertaining to natural oyster
beds and bars.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 154. 1912, sec. 130. 1908, ch. 590, sec. 2.

151. After said rocks shall have been surveyed as provided in section
150 of this article, no part of them shall be leased to any person or persons
for the purpose of planting, bedding or cultivating oysters therein, but
they shall be reserved to the public in the State of Maryland for the sole
purpose of taking clams therefrom, and shall be treated in every particu-
lar as are the natural oyster beds or bars which have been or shall be sur-
veyed by the Conservation Commission under chapter 711 of the acts of
the general assembly of Maryland of 1906.

1931, ch. 432, sec. 154A.

152. On and after June 1, 1931, all the waters of Worcester County
shall be subject to the provisions of Article 72 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland relating to oysters, the same as the waters of Chesa-
peake Bay and its tributaries, except the provisions of the following sections