1332 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 765

creeks the use of any engine of any kind in or upon any boat
or vessel, while said boat or vessel is being used, or while any
person thereon is engaged in scraping or scooping crabs, is
expressly prohibited.

(c) This section shall not apply to that part of Dorchester
County which includes the following bars and their tribu-
taries: Honga River, Tar Bay, Hooper's Straits, Fishing Bay
and Holland's Straits.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1941.

Approved May 26, 1941.

CHAPTER 765.
(House Bill 626)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 113
of Article 72 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Oysters", sub-title "Oyster Culture", relat-
ing to renewal of leases of oyster bottoms after twenty years.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 113 of Article 72 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Oysters", sub-title "Oyster
Culture", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

113. After the survey or re-survey provided for herein shall
have been completed, it shall be the duty of the Conservation
Department to lease, in the name of the State of Maryland,
tracts or parcels of land beneath the waters of this State,
whether within the limits of the Counties or elsewhere, in the
area to be opened for oyster culture, according to the pro-
visions of this sub-title; provided, that no tract so leased, if
situated within the territorial limits of any County in this
State, shall contain less than one acre of land, and if situated
in any other place, no tract so leased shall contain less than
five acres. It shall be the duty of said Department to require
that the tracts so leased shall be as nearly rectangular as is
convenient. It shall be the duty of the said Department to
demand from each lessee payment of the rent each year in
advance. No person shall be permitted, by lease, assignment
or in any other manner, to acquire a greater amount of land
than thirty acres situated within the territorial limits of any
of the Counties, or five hundred acres in any other place;