1208                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 776

such three-year additional period, the lessee, upon written request
to the Department, may be granted a renewal of said lease upon the
payment of resurvey and recording fees of [five dollars ($5.00)]
Twenty Dollars ($20.00) and [two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50]
Five Dollars ($5.00) respectively. If no such written request be
made, the leased area shall revert to the State, and any one desiring
to lease said area shall proceed in the same manner as though the
land had never been leased.

(p) Each lessee, immediately upon completion of a lease, shall
cause the land designated as leased to him to be plainly marked out by
stakes, buoys or monuments, under the supervision of the Department
of [Tidewater Fisheries] Chesapeake Bay Affairs; at least four of
such stakes, buoys or monuments shall have the initials of the lessee
plainly marked upon them. Requests for resurveys for the purpose
of relocating or replacing such stakes, buoys, or monuments shall
be accompanied by a fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) for each stake, buoy,
or monument, provided that no fee in excess of Twenty Dollars
($20.00) shall be charged for any resurvey. Reasonable diligence
shall be exercised by the lessee to maintain such buoys or stakes but
the temporary loss or destruction of any such buoys or stakes shall
not operate to permit any unauthorized person to trespass upon such
leased areas or to remove, destroy, or disturb oysters thereon. Any-
one moving, removing, tampering with, or destroying any such buoys,
stakes, or monuments shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not to exceed $250.

In any action at law involving an alleged trespasser on any such
leased lands where such buoys or stakes have been so lost or destroyed,
the court shall not impose any penalty upon such alleged violator, for
such alleged violation, if the court shall determine as a fact that said
alleged trespass was accidental, unwitting and unintentional.

(r) No assignment or transfer of any interest acquired by this sub-
title shall be valid for any purpose if made to a nonresident of this
State. If any such assignment is attempted to be made, all interest of
the grantor, or assignor, shall revert to the State as if no lease had
ever been made. All applications for assignment or transfer of any
interest acquired by this subtitle shall be accompanied by a recording
fee of Five Dollars ($5.00). If any assignment of any interest created
by this subtitle is attempted to be made to any corporation or joint-
stock company, all the interest of the grantor or assignor shall revert
to the State as if no lease had ever been made. If any assignment of
any interest created by this subtitle is attempted to be made to any
person in such a way that the assignee shall become the holder of
more than thirty acres, fifty acres, one hundred acres or five hundred
acres, as the case may be. according to the location of land leased
under this subtitle, all interest of the grantor or assignor, in case of
such an assignment, shall revert to the State as if no lease had been
made.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.