I'l'i* Ifcport of the Hoard of Shell Fish Commissioner* 



areas shall be opened to oyster culture during the closed season 

 for dredging, scraping or tonging, as the case may be, then 

 the persons so engaged at the end of the last dredging, scraping 

 or tonging season, shall have the like exclusive right in the 

 order of their respective application, as the same may be re- 

 ceived and opened by the Commissioners, to rent any adjacent 

 lands, provided that in no event shall any such land owner, 

 boatman or any other person, be permitted to rent x>r acquire 

 more than ten acres, or one hundred acres, as the case may be, 

 dependent upon the situation of the land which is leased or 

 acquired; and provided further, that no such riparian land 

 owner, as is mentioned in this section, shall be entitled to rent 

 the amount of ten acres, or one hundred acres, as the case may 

 be, unless the water front of the land so owned by him, if front- 

 ing on water within the territorial limits of a county, be at least 

 two hundred yards, or if fronting on waters in any other place, 

 be at least seven hundred yards. The owners of land having 

 a less water front than is mentioned above shall be entitled to 

 rent a proportionately less amount of land, dependent upon the 

 length of the front upon water within county limits or else- 

 where. 



SECTION 101. Blank forms of application shall be furnished 

 upon reasonable charges, to be prescribed by the Board of Shell 

 Fish Commissioners, to any person desiring the same. All such 

 forms shall be printed and shall be substantially in the follow- 

 ing languages: Application for a lease to the Board of Shell 



Fish Commissioners of Maryland. The Application of 



, a resident of County, in the 



State of Maryland, respectfully shows that he is a resident of 

 said State ; that he wishes and intends to use the grounds here- 

 inafter described for planting or cultivating oysters. He there- 

 fore requests that said Board lease to him, in the name and on 



behalf of the State of Maryland acres of ground located 



under the waters of the State of Maryland, which ground is 

 more particularly described as follows, to wit: (Describe here). 



Dated at , Maryland, this .... . .day of 



.... A. D. , Applicant. 



SECTION 102. When the period of ten months" will have 

 elapsed after said survey shall have been completed, or after the 



