EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Section 102. When the period of ten months will have

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elapsed after said survey shall have been completed, or after
the lands beneath the waters of any areas shall have been
opened to leasing under Section 99 of this Act, the Board of
Shell Fish Commissioners shall endeavor to lease the remain-
ing portions of land so open to oyster culture under the
provisions of this Act to applicants who shall be residents
of Maryland, in order of their applications as received and
opened by said commissioners.
Section 103. Any person who may desire to plant and

Remainder of
land leased
to residents
of Maryland
in order of
their
application.

cultivate oysters in the area hereinbefore designated shall
file with the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners an appli-
cation substantially in the form prescribed in Section 101 of
this Act. The applicant shall indicate plainly the location
of the land he desires to lease. The application shall be
sworn to before a justice of the peace of this State. A fee
of five dollars shall be paid by the applicant to the Board of
Shell Fish Commissioners at the time of filing the applica-
tion, which fee shall be returned to the applicant if his
application shall be for any reason declined.
Section 104. If such applicant be a resident of the State
of Maryland, and if no objections to the issuing of the lease

Application to
be filed.

asked for in any such application be filed with the commis-
sioners within the period of thirty days after such applica-
tion is made, or as soon as any objections that may have
been filed to the granting of such lease will have been finally
overruled by said commissioners, the said commissioners,
upon payment by the applicant of a further fee of two dollars
and a half, in addition to the fee of five dollars, which is to
accompany his application, shall cause to be entered in a
book or books to be known as " The Register of Titles to
Oyster Lands," the name of the applicant, with a concise but
clear description of the land applied for. A survey of such
land at the expense of the applicant shall be made by the
board before the entry, if, in its opinion, said survey is nec-
essary to an accurate description thereof. The payment of
the proper fees due for the application and record in the
register required by this section to be kept shall constitute
between the State and the applicant the relation of landlord
and tenant for the term of twenty years, from the record of
the lands so applied for as aforesaid, at the annual rentals
provided in Section 98 of this Act.

Name of
applicant
entered in
"The
register of
titles to
oyster
lands."