HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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	the same for protecting, sowing, bedding or depositing oysters or other shell-fish within the lines of their own land; and any owner or owners of land lying and bordering upon any of the waters of this State, shall have power to locate and appropriate in any of the waters adjoining his or her or their lands, one lot of five acres, for the purpose of protecting, pre- serving, depositing, bedding or sowing oysters or other shell-fish, and that any other male citizen of full age, of the State, shall have power to locate and appropriate and hold one lot of five acres, and no more, in any waters in said State, not located or appropriated ; provided, thirty days' notice in writing shall be given the owner or owners, occupant or oc-	Exclusive use.
	cupants, of land bordering on said waters pro- posed to be located, that the owner or owners, occupant or occupants, may have priority of claim; and if they shall fail to locate or appro- priate the water mentioned in said notice, within thirty days' after receiving the same, then it shall be open and free to any one under the provisions of this section; provided, also, that the said location or appropriation shall	Fire arms.
	be described by stakes, bushes, and with the name of the owner on a board fastened to a pole or stake, on or within the appropriated oyster land or other proper and visible metes and bounds; which description shall be re- duced to writing, under the oath of some com- petent Suryeyor, and recorded, at the expense of the party locating or appropriating the same, in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit	How to be des- cribed.
	Court in the county wherein such land may be located; and provided, also, that such loca- tion and appropriation shall not injure, ob- struct or impede the free navigation of said waters; and provided, that no natural bar or bed of oysters shall be so located or appro-	Oath.
	priated, and that twelve 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 twelve months be charged	Proviso.