2744 ARTICLE 72

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

156.. 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 120 of this Article
shall apply to a lessee holding ground under this sub-title with the further
right to exclude all persons from crabbing, fishing with nets or clamming
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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 155. 1912, sec. 131. 1908, ch. 228.

157. The board of public works shall be and is hereby authorized and
required to rent or hire a suitable boat to assist in guarding the tonging
bottoms of Somerset County located at or near the mouth of the Wicomico
river, or adjacent thereto, and in enforcing the laws pertaining thereto,
at a cost not to exceed thirty dollars per month for the hiring of said boat,
and to appoint a suitable person to command said boat at a salary of fifty
dollars per month, from the first day of September to the 30th day of
April following, of each and every successive oyster season; and the com-
mander of said boat shall be authorized to select such number of seamen
to serve on said boat as the board of public works shall authorize, not to
exceed two in number, at salaries of thirty dollars each per month, during
the period of his or their service on said boat; provided, however, that the
owner of such boat so hired shall keep the same in good order and repair.¹

Advisory Committee on Oysters.

1927, ch. 369.

158. 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 This section repealed by Ch. 353, 1939. But as Act is subject to referendum vote
at the. November election, 1940, this section will not be repealed unless a majority of
the voters voting thereon are in favor of said Act. If said Act is approved, this section.
will be repealed as of Dec. 5, 1940.