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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 711

oysters at the time of the completion of the said survey, or
at the respective times of the opening for oyster culture of
several areas, or if said survey shall be completed, or the
said areas shall be opened to oyster culture during the closed
season for dredging, scraping, or tonging, as the case may
be, then the persons so engaged at the end of the last dredg-
ing, scraping or tonging season shall have the like exclusive
right in the order of their respective applications, as the same
may be received and opened by the commissioners, to rent
any adjacent lands; provided, that in no event shall any such
landowner, boatman, or any other person, be permitted to
rent or to acquire more than ten acres, or one hundred acres,
as the case may be, dependent upon the situation of the land

Proviso.

which is leased or acquired; and provided, further, that no
such riparian landowner as is mentioned in this section shall
be entitled to rent the amount of ten acres, or one hundred
acres, as the case may be, unless the water front of the land
so owned by him, if fronting on water within the territorial
limits of a county, be at least two hundred yards, or if front-
ing, on waters in any other place, be at least seven hundred
yards. The owners of land having a less water front than is
mentioned above shall be entitled to rent a proportionately
less amount of land, dependent upon the length of the front
upon water within county limits or elsewhere.

Section 101. Blank forms of application shall be fur-

Forms of
application
furnished.

nished upon reasonable charges, to be prescribed by the
Board of the Shell Fish Commissioners, to any person desir-
ing the same. All such forms shall be printed and shall be
substantially in the following language: Application for a
lease to the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of Mary-
land. The application of ———— a resident of ———— county,
in the State, of Maryland, respectfully shows that he is a
resident of said State; that he wishes and intends to use the
ground hereinafter described for planting or cultivating
oysters. He, therefore, requests that said board lease to him,
in the name and on behalf of the State of Maryland ——
acres of ground located under the waters of the State of
Maryland, which ground is more particularly described as
follows, to wit: (Describe here.) Dated at ———— Maryland,
this ———— day of ———— A. D.

Applicant.