. LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That no appropriation for the
benefit of the colored industrial schools of any county, pro-

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vided for under this Act, shall be paid after the first annual
appropriation, unless the average daily attendance at such
school or schools shall have been, for the preceding year, at
least thirty scholars ; and in. case said attendance shall fall
short of said number, then there shall be paid to the treasurer
of the County School Commissioners maintaining said school
or schools, only at the rate of fifty ($50.00) dollars a scholar,
for the daily average annual attendance at the same, to be
determined by the report hereinbefore required to be made to
the Comptroller.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 274.
AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 19 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "St. Mary's County," sub-title
"Oysters," to follow Section 96, to be designated as Sections
96 A and 96 B, and to repeal Section 46 of Article 72 of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Oysters," so far as the
provisions of said section are in conflict or inconsistent with
the aforesaid new sections added to Article 19 of the Code
of Public Local Laws.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Appropria-
tion when
paid.

land,, That a new section be and the same are hereby added
to Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "St.
Mary's County," sub-title "Oysters," to follow section 96, to be
designated as sections 96 A and 96 B, and that section 46 of
Article 72 of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Oysters," be and the same is hereby repealed so far as the
provisions of said section are in conflict or inconsistent with
the provisions of the new sections aforesaid, which new sec-
tions shall read as follows :
96 A. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons or body

Repeal.

corporate to survey, locate, appropriate, hold or attempt to
hold any oyster beds, bars or bottoms suitable for the catching
of oysters within the limits of St. Mary's county, except that
any male citizen above the age of twenty-one years may have
surveyed and located one acre of such bottom for the purpose
of planting oysters within the limits of St. Mary's county ;
provided, however, that no such location, appropriation or
holding shall be permitted upon any natural oyster bed, bar or

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Unlawful to
bold oyster
beds, etc.