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CHAPTER 269.
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AN ACT to amend article twenty, of the Code of Public Local
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Laws, title " Somerset county," by adding thereto certain sec-
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tions under the sub-title " Oysters," to follow section one hun-
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dred and ninety-six, and to be designated as " Sections, A B, C,
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D, E, F, G, H, and K."
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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That article twenty, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
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"Somerset county," sub-title " Oysters," be and the same is hereby
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Amended.
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amended by adding thereto certain new sections to follow next
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after section one hundred and ninety-six, and to be designated as
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" Sections A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and K."
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A. That the owner or owners of any land bcrdering on any of
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the navigable waters of Somerset county, the lines of which ex-
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tend into and are covered by said waters shall have the exclusive
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To locate
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privilege of using the same for the protecting, sowing, bedding or
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depositing oysters, shells or other shell-fish within the lines of
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their own land; and any owner or owners of any land, being citi-
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zens of Somerset county for twelve months, lying and bordering
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upon any of the waters of said county shall have power to locate
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and appropriate in any of the waters adjoining his, her or their
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lands one lot of five acres, and no more, for the purpose of pro-
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tecting, sowing, preserving, depositing or bedding oysters, shells
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or other shell-fish; and any of the male citizens of Somerset
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county, of the full age of twenty-one years, shall have the power
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to locate and appropriate five acres in any waters of said county
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not located and appropriated under the provisions of this act ;
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provided, that thirty days' notice in writting shall be given to the
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owner or owners, occupant or occupants of lands bordering on said
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waters proposed to be located, that the owner or owners, occupant
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Surveyed,
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or occupants may have priority of claim; and if they shall fail
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&c.
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to locate or appropriate the water mentioned in said notice for the
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purposes aforesaid, within thirty days after receiving the same,
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then it shall be open to anyone being a male citizen of Somerset
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