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the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of his intention to 

 become such lessee within six months after the passage hereof. 

 The holding of any person who may have appropriated any 

 such land shall become void and of no effect in law, upon the 

 expiration of the said period of six months from the passage 

 hereof, if no such notice of intention will have been given 

 within said period of six months. 



SECTION 109. The lessee of any land leased for the purpose 

 of planting and cultivating oysters shall have exclusive owner- 

 ship of and title to all oysters planted by him or existing on 

 the land leased. 



SECTION 110. No assignment or transfer of any interest 

 acquired by this Act shall be valid for any purpose if made to 

 a non-resident of this State. If any such assignment is at- 

 tempted to be made, all 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 Act 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 in- 

 terest created by this Act- is attempted to be made to any per- 

 son in such a way that the assignee shall become the holder of 

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

 according to the location of land leased under this Act, all 

 interest of the grantor or assignor, in case of such an assign- 

 ment, shall revert to the State as if no lease had been made. 



SECTION 111. It shall be lawful for any tonger, between the 

 15th day of April and the 15th day of May in any year to take 

 oysters from such natural beds or bars in the tonging districts 

 of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, as the Commission 

 may mark out for that purpose, and under such regulations as 

 said Commission may from time to time prescribe; provided, 

 however, that said oysters may be sold only for the purpose 

 now permitted under existing laws of Maryland, during the 

 season of the year above mentioned ; and in addition thereto, to 

 persons engaged in ' the industry of planting and cultivating 

 oysters within the area designated by this Act, the same to be 

 delivered only upon lands which may have been leased under 



