216 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 120. In any indictment for a violation of Sections 113
and 114 of this Act, or of any other section thereof whereby it
may become necessary to describe the location of the particu-
lar oyster lot, it shall not be necessary to set forth all the pro-
cedure required by law to locate said lot. It shall be sufficient
to use a formula substantially to the following effect:

"That A. B., on the ———— day of —-—, nineteen hundred
and ———-, at the county and State aforesaid, being then and
there a citizen of ———— county and State of Maryland, did
lease, locate and appropriate a certain oyster lot in the waters
of the ——————, in the county and State aforesaid, for the
purpose of planting and cultivating oysters thereon; that said
oyster lot was leased, located and appropriated in due form of
law, as provided by Chapter 711 of the Acts of 1906, a plat and
written description of which is duly recorded among the oyster
lot records of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of the
State of Maryland, and the said lessee has complied with all
the conditions and terms of the said lease, as well as the said
Chapter 711 of the Acts of 1906, and the Board of Shell Fish
Commissioners of Maryland authorizing the same, and has
planted oysters and shells within the lines of the said oyster
lot located and appropriated as aforesaid: That afterward, to
wit, on the ——— day of ———, in the year 19——-, in the
county and State aforesaid, a certain C. D. from the said oyster
lot, located, appropriated and leased as aforesaid by and to
the said A. B., then and there, wilfully and without authority
from the said A. B., owner and lessee as aforesaid, did take and
remove oysters from the oyster lot aforesaid (or did interfere
with or injure the oysters thereon, or interfere with the stakes,
etc., marking the said lot, or have overboard any dredge, scrape,
pair of tongs or other implement for taking of oysters, as the
case may be), knowing them to be planted and bedded oysters.

SEC. 121. That at any trial on such an indictment, or for
any offense under or in violation of this Act whereby it may
become necessary to prove the Board of Shell Fish Commis-
sioners present with their records, nor shall it be necessary to
have the surveyor present, but the said location may be proven
either by the original, or a certified copy of the lease thereof,
and any plat of the said location made or certified to by the
said Board of Shell Fish Commissioners shall also be evidence
of the said location of the said oyster lot.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 13, 1910.