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if any assignment of any interest created by this sub-title
is attempted to be made, in such a way that the assignee
shall become the holder of more than fifty acres, all inter-
est of the grantor or assignor, shall revert to the State as
if no lease had ever been made.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new section
be added to Article 72 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
title "Oysters, " sub-title "Oyster Culture, " to follow im-
mediately after Section 154B, to be known as Section
154BB, and to read as follows:

Section 154BB. The following waters of Worcester
County, subject to the provisions of this Section, are here-
by designated as clamming grounds for Worcester County,
viz:

All waters easterly of a line drawn as follows: Begin-
ning at a point about 1, 500 yards westerly of the western
extremity of an unnamed island lying westerly of an island
charted as Pope's Island, which point is on the Maryland-
Virginia boundary line in the waters of Chincoteague Bay;
thence running a northerly course to White Rock; thence
running a northeasterly course to a point known as Whit-
tington Point, thence running a northerly course to the
southernmost point of the newly constructed channel from
the Ocean City Inlet, which point is located about one mile
northeasterly of Robins Marsh; thence running in a north-
easterly direction by and with the said channel up to the
inlet which connects the Atlantic Ocean and Sinepuxent
Bay; and all waters in Sinepuxent, Isle of Wight and Assa-
woman Bays lying north of said inlet on the eastward or
beach side of said bays, known as sand shoals.

The Conservation Department is hereby directed to file
in its office in the City of Baltimore and in the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Worcester County a chart
showing the lines designated above as clamming grounds.

The Conservation Commissioner may at any time here-
after survey and examine any portion of the areas which
are subject to lease and the clamming grounds for the pur-
pose of re-locating the lines designated above. If upon
such survey, he shall find that conditions warrant a change
of said lines, he shall publish an amended chart showing
the lines thus re-established. Said amended chart shall be
filed in the office of the Conservation Department in the
City of Baltimore within ninety days thereafter and copies
shall be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Worces-
ter County, provided that such surveys shall not in any