2024 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apr. 4

of citing parties to the cause or summoning witnesses
shall be served by the sheriff of the county where the
party or witnesses lives. Such costs as are layed by
the clerks of the Circuit Court for similar services shall
be allowed to the commissioners for docketing the
causes arising under any section of this Act, and issu-
ing process in the same. The same appeal shall be
allowed from the decision of the Commissioners in
such cases as is allowed under section 19 of this Act.

"Sec. 15. And be it enacted, That the relation of
landlord and tenant stated in section 12, shall have
all the incidents attaching to that relation as the same
exists under the laws of Maryland, excepting only
the following particulars :

'First. The only remedy of the State for non-pay-
ment of the rent for oyster lands shall be the strict
enforcement of the provisions set forth in section 7 of
this Act. Upon the non-payment or any rent for the
time therein mentioned, it shall be the duty of the
Shell Fish Commissioners to declare the lease vacated
by stamping the word "void" in distinct letters acres
the description in the register.

'Second. Land leased under this Act shall be us
only for the purpose of planting and cultivating
oysters.

'Third. No right shall exist to redeem or purchase

any land of the State so leased.

'Fourth. Any other modifications caused by the
provisions of this Act.'

"Sec. 16. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners
shall at once notify the lessee of the record in the regis-
ter required by section 12, and the lessee shall, as soon
thereafter as practicable not exceeding sixty days from
the receipt of said notice, cause the ground designated
as leased to him, to be plainly marked out by stakes,
buoys or monuments, shall have the initials of the
lessee distinctly marked, and such stakes, buoys or
monuments, shall be at all times during the existence
of said lease continued by the said grantee or his legal
representatives.

"Sec. 17. And be it enacted, That the lessee of any
land leased for the purpose of planting and cultivating