120 Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 



(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 lands be- 

 neath the waters of any area shall have been opened to leasing un- 

 der Section 99 of this Act, the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 

 shall endeavor to lease the remaining portions of land so open to 

 oyster culture under the provisions of this Act to applicants who 

 shall be residents of Maryland, in the order of their applications as 

 received and opened by said Commissioners. 



Section 103. Any person who may desire to plant and culti- 

 vate oysters in the area hereinbefore designated shall file with the 

 Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 'an application substantially in 

 the form prescribed in Section 101 of this Act. The applicant 

 shall indicate plainly the location of the land he desires to lease. 

 The application shall be sworn to before a Justice of the Peace of 

 this State. A fee of five dollars shall be paid by the applicant to 

 the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners at the time of filing the 

 application, which fee shall be returned to the applicant if his ap- 

 plication shall be for any reason declined. 



Section 104. If such applicant be a resident of the State of 

 Maryland, and if no objections to the issuing of the lease asked for 

 in any such application be filed with the Commissioners within the 

 period of thirty days after such application is made, or as soon as 

 any objection that may have been filed to the granting of such 

 lease will have been finally overruled by said Commissioners, the 

 said Commissioners, upon payment by the applicant of a further 

 fee of two dollars and a half, in addition to the fee of five 

 dollars, which is to accompany his application, shall cause to 

 be entered in a book or books to be known as "The Register 

 of Title to Oyster Lands," the name of the applicant, with concise 

 but clear description of the land applied for. A survey of such 

 land at the expense of the applicant shall be made by the Board be- 

 fore the entry, if, in its opinion, said survey is necessary to an ac- 

 curate description thereof. The payment of the proper fees due 

 for the application and the record in the register required by this 

 section to be kept, shall constitute between the State and the appli- 

 cant the relation of landlord and tenant for the term of twenty 



