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	appropriation shall be described by stakes, bushes, or	Describe by
	other proper and visible metes and bounds, which	stakes
	description shall be reduced to writing, under the
	oath of some competent surveyor, and recorded at
	the expense of the party locating or appropriating the same, in the office of the clerk of the circr.it court
	in the county wherein such land may be located ; and
	provided, also, that such location and appropriation
	shall not injure, obstruct or impede the free naviga-
	tion of said waters; and provided that no natural
	bar or bed of oysters shall be so located or appro-
	priated ; and that six months' peaceable possession
	of all locations of oyster grounds, under the laws of
	this State, shall constitute a good and sufficient title
	thereto ; but should any one within the six months
	herein provided be charged with locating or appro-
	priating any natural bed or bar hereinbefore pro-
	hibited, the question may be at once submitted by
	any person interested to the' judge of the circuit
	court in the county where such questions shall arise,
	who, after having given notice to the parties inter-
	ested, proceed to hear the testimony and decide the	Hear testi-
	case, and if decision be in favor of the party locat-	mony.
	ing said five acres, said decision shall be recorded
	with the original record of said five acres, and shall,
	in all cases, be conclusive evidence of title thereto.
	SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That if any creek,
	cove or inlet not exceeding one hundred yards, at
	low water, in breadth at its mouth, make into the
	lands, or that if any creek, cove or inlet of greater
	width than one hundred yards, at low water mark,
	make into the lands, the owner or owners or other
	lawful occupant or occupants shall have the exclu-
	sive right to use such creek, cove or inlet when the	Exclusive
	mouth of said creek, cove or inlet is one hundred	right.
	yards or less in width; and when the said creek,
	cove or inlet is more than one hundred yards in
	width, at its mouth, at low water, the said owner or
	owners or other lawful occupant or occupants shall
	have exclusive right to use such creek, cove or inlet,
	so soon as said creek, cove or inlet, in making into
	said land or lands, shall become one hundred yards
	in width at low water, for preserving, depositing, bedding or sowing oysters or other shell fish, although
	such cove, creek or inlet may not be included in the
	lines of any patent.