So Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 



LEASES GRANTED.** 



TO LANDS FOR THE PURPOSES OF OYSTER CULTURE BY THE BOARD 



OF SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1910. 



Lessees Under 

 Former Eaw. 



Counties. No. Acres 



Anne Arundel 18 70.95 



Baltimore* 



Calvert 59 226.61 



Charles* 15 58.65 



Dorchester* SO 372.52 



Kent * 1 5.00 



Queen Anne's* 7 27.39 



Somerset 190 946.88 



St. Mary's* 35 124.41 



Talbot* 48 195.77 



Wicomico 19 89.12 



Worcester 



* Totals 472 2117.30 



Residents Under 



Present Law to 



Dec. 15. 19 8. 



No. Acres. 

 27 139.13 



Residents Under 



Present Law 



Since Last 



Report. 



No. Acres. 

 19 57.50 



No. Acres. 

 54 267.58 



139.13 



6.00 



53 494.00 



17 165.00 



232.61 



58.65 



372.52 



5.00 



27.39 



243 1440.S8 



35 124.41 

 48 195.77 



36 254.12 



61 

 15 



80 



1 



7 



SI 722.50 



580 2978.93 



** Five leases, in addition to the above, have been granted under the present 

 law — two in Anne Arundel County and three in Somerset County — which have 

 not been signed by the applicant and returned to the office to be recorded. 



♦Barren bottoms not opened for lease for the purposes of oyster culture. 



LESSEES IN ARREARS WITH RENT * 

 FOR THE USE OF OYSTER LANDS, SEPTEMBER 30, 1910. 



* The leases held by all of these lessees might have been canceled by the Board 

 of Shell Fish Commissioners, in accordance with provisions of Section 98, but 

 since the cancellation of a lease under existing law does not prevent the lessee 

 from continuing to use the land for the purposes of oyster culture, and since 

 the law in its present form withholds from lessees certain rights and privileges 

 the exercise of which are recognized to be essential to success in oyster culture. 

 the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners has refrained from exercising its power 

 to cancel leases, believing that the Oyster Culture Law will ultimately be so 

 perfected as to encourage oyster culture, and that many of the lessees now in 

 arrears with rents will then remit the same and continue to co-operate with 

 t'>e State in developing an industry in oyster culture on our unproductive oyster 

 lands. 



