ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

that is to say, one at each corner of said ground ;
and in case of storms or ice taking up said
stakes, bushes, or buoys, or a part of them, one
stake, bush, or buoy shall be sufficient notice
that oysters have been planted there until the
owner or owners have sufficient time thereafter
to re-stake said oyster grounds; and if any person
or persons, through mistake or ignorance, should

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plant upon a natural rock, or part of a rock, it
shall be the duty of the county commissioners
of said county, upon the sworn statement of any
informant, to appoint and commission three dis-
interested men, on oath, to go on said oyster
ground with the owner or owners and examine
and determine the same : and if they shall find
a rock in said oyster ground so staked more
than twenty feet square in any one place in said
ground they shall value the same upon oath, and
the person or persons so planting shall pay the
amount of said valuation to the county commis-
sioners for the use of said county, and also pay
the expense of said commission, not to exceed
ten dollars in any one case ; and in case said
commission shall not find a rock in said ground
so planted more than twenty feet square in any
one place, then the informer shall be held bound

Duty of com-
missioners.

to pay the expense of said commission, which
may be collected as all other claims are col-
lected, or the county commissioners may require
the informant to deposit the amount required to
pay said commission, not to exceed ten dollars
in any one case.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall not

How collected;

be lawful for any person or persons to work in
or among any planted oysters, or within the
stakes, bushes or buoys, or where oysters are
known to be planted, with any tongs, rakes or any
other instrument by which oysters can be taken
from the bottom other than the owner or own-
ers, or their agent or agents, employe or em-
ployes, who shall have a perfect right to so
work with any instrument required in said
work. Any person or persons caught at work
on any planted oysters in the Synepuxent bay,
or its tributaries, without proper authority from
the owner or owners, upon sufficient proof and
conviction before a justice of the peace, or the

Not lawful.