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CHAPTER 590;

AN ACT to prescribe additional duties to be performed by the
Board of Shell Fish Commissioners, to the duties already
prescribed for them by chapter 711 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1906.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be the duty of the Board of Shell Fish Com-
missioners, as soon after the passage of this Act as practica-
ble, to have laid out, surveyed and designated on charts pro-
vided for such purpose, Gravel Rock, Ware Rock and Flat Rock,
being clam rocks located in the waters of Pocomoke Sound, in
Somerset county, and State of Maryland, and shall cause to be
marked and defined as accurately as practicably the limits and
boundaries of each of the above named rocks, and they shall
take true and accurate notes of said survey and mark the report
and perform all other duties connected with said survey as said
duties are prescribed by Chapter 711 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1906, pertaining to natural oyster
beds and bars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That after said rocks shall have been surveyed as pro-
vided in section 1 of this Act, no part of them shall be
leased to any person or persons for the purpose of plant-
ing, bedding or cultivating oysters therein, but they shall
be reserved to the public in the State of Maryland for the
sole purpose of taking clams therefrom, and shall be treated in
every particular as are the natural oyster beds or bars which
have been or shall be surveyed by the Board of Shell Fish Com-
missioners under Chapter 711 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland of 1906.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1908.

ARTICLE LXXV

PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS AT LAW.

CHAPTER 417.

AN ACT to amend article 75 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, title "Pleadings, Practice and Process at
Law, " sub-title "Removal of Causes, " by adding a new sec-
tion thereto, to follow section 102, and to be known as sec-