128 Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 



IV. 



AN ACT SETTING ASIDE CLAM ROCKS IN 

 POCOMOKE SOUND. 



(Approved April 6th, 1908). 



AN ACT to prescribe additional duties to be performed by the 

 Board of Shell Fish Commissioners, to the duties already pre- 

 scribed to them by Chapter 711, of the Acts of the General 

 Assembly of Maryland of 1906. 



Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 

 land, that it shall be the duty of the Board of Shell Fish Commis- 

 sioners, as soon after the passage of this Act as practicable to have 

 laid out, surveyed, and designated on charts provided for such pur- 

 pose, Grant Rock, Ware Rock, and Flat Rock, being clam rocks 

 located in the waters of Pocomoke Sound, in Somerset County and 

 State of Maryland, and shall cause to be marked and defined as ac- 

 curately as practicable the limits and boundaries of each of the 

 above named rocks, and they shall take true and accurate notes of 

 said survey and make the report and perform all other duties con- 

 nected with said survey as said duties are prescribed by Chapter 

 711 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1906, per- 

 taining to natural oyster beds and bars. 



Section 2. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of 

 Maryland, that after said rocks shall have been surveyed, as pro- 

 vided in Section 1 of this Act, no part of them shall be leased to 

 any person or persons for the purpose of planting, bedding or cul- 

 tivating oysters therein, but they shall be reserved to the public in 

 the State of Maryland for the sole purpose of taking clams there- 

 from and shall be treated in every particular as are the natural 

 oyster beds or bars which have been or shall be surveyed by the 

 Board of Shell Fish Commissioners, under Chapter 711 of the 

 Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1906. 



Section 3. And be it further enacted, that this Act shall take 

 effect from the date of its passage. 



