EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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written notice to the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of
his intention to become such lessee within six months after
the passage hereof. The holding of any person who may
have appropriated any such land shall become void and of
no effect in law upon the expiration of the said period of six
months from the passage hereof, if no such notice of inten-
tion will have been given within said period of six months.

Section 109. The lessee of any land leased for the pur-

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pose of planting and cultivating oysters shall have exclusive
ownership of and title to all oysters planted by him or exist-
ing on the land leased.

Section 110. No assignment or transfer of any interest

Exclusive
ownership,
etc.

acquired by this Act shall be valid for any purpose if made
to a non-resident of this State. If any such assignment is
attempted to be made, all interest of the grantor or assignor
shall revert to the State, as if no lease had ever been made.
If any assignment of any interest created by this Act is
attempted to be made to any corporation, or joint stock com-
pany, all the interest of the grantor or assignor shall revert
to the State as if no lease had ever been made. If any
assignment of any interest created by this Act is attemped
to be made to any person in such a way that the assignee
shall become the holder of more than ten acres, or one hun-
dred acres, as the case may be, according to the location of
land leased under this Act, all interest of the grantor, or
assignor, in case of such an assignment, shall revert to the
State as if no lease had been made.

Section 111. It shall be lawful for any tonger, between

Validity of
assignment.

the 15th day of April and the 15th day of May in any year,
to take oysters from such natural beds or bars in the tong-
ing districts of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, as
the commission may mark out for that purpose, and under
such regulations as said commission may from time to time
prescribe; and provided, however, that said oysters may be
sold only for the purposes now permitted under the existing
laws of Maryland, during the season of the year above men-
tioned; and in addition thereto, to persons engaged in the
industry of planting and cultivating oysters within the area
designated by this Act, the same to be delivered only upon
lands which may have been leased under the provisions of
this Act for said purposes of planting or cultivation.

Unlawful to
take oysters
from natural
beds between
15th day of
April and
15th day of
May.