PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 387

Public General Laws, to follow Section 94, and to be designated
as Sections 94-A, 94-B and, 94-C, and to read as follows:

SEC. 94-A. The Board of Shell Fish Commissioners may at
any time hereafter resurvey and re-examine any portion of the
areas of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in the State of
Maryland for the purpose of correcting surveys theretofore made
by them, and if upon such resurvey the Board shall find that
natural beds or bars have been incorrectly located, they shall
prepare a revised or amended chart showing the natural bed or
bar thus resurveyed, and shall cause to be marked or defined
as accurately as possible the correct limits and boundaries of
such natural bed or bar, and said amended chart shall be filed
in the office of the Board in the City of Baltimore within ninety
days thereafter, and copies thereof shall be filed with the Clerk
of the Circuit Court of the County in which or nearest to which
the natural bed or bar thus resurveyed is located; provided that
such resurvey shall in no manner affect leases of a part or all
of the area resurveyed, actually issued and in force at the time
of such resurvey unless the respective lessees thereof shall volun-
tarily surrender their leases as hereinafter provided, or shall
forfeit their leases by non-payment of rentals as provided in
Section 98, or unless the rights, interests and properties of the
lessees under said leases shall be acquired by the State by con-
demnation proceedings instituted not later than January 1st
1915, as provided in Section 94-C. The said Board is au-
thorized to accept voluntary surrender of leases of any lots
within the area thus resurveyed and found to be natural beds
or bars, and to refund to such lessee the rentals and charges
theretofore paid to said Board for the lot or lots surendered.

SEC. 94-B. Three or more residents of this State may at any
time before January 1, 1915, file a petition in writing, alleging
that five or more adjacent acres of natural beds or bars situated
in the Chesapeake Bay outside County waters, or one or more
acres of natural beds or bars within the territorial limits of any
County of this State, to be described in said petition have been
excluded from the surveys or resurveys of natural beds or bars
of this State, such petition to be attested by the several oaths of
the petitioners, and to be filed in the Circuit Court for the
County in which or nearest to which the area in question is
located. Upon the filing of such petition, the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court shall docket a suit at law in which the petitioners
are to be plaintiffs and the Shell Fish Commissioners and lessees,
if any, of such area are to be the defendants. The Court,