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g-ood taith, within five years from tiie day of ()btainini>- said franchise, 

 an actual efi'ort to raise and cultivate shellfish on said grounds. And 

 provided further that the area hereinbefore described, lying within 

 two statute miles of the main land or any island, shall be entered or 

 held only by residents of the State of North Carolina, and no grant 

 shall be made to any c^ne person of more than ten acres of said terri- 

 tory, and no person shall hold more than ten acres in any creek unless 

 the same shall be acquired through devise, inheritance or marriage. 

 And all that territory within the provisions of this act and lying more 

 than two miles from the mainland or any island, shall be subject to 

 entry by any person, but no person shall be permitted to enter in any 

 one period for five years, more than six hundred and forty acres. 



Sec. 7. Twentv-fi\'e cents per acre shall be paid to the State Treas- 

 urer for all franchises granted, and all moneys received for the grant- 

 ing of franchises, or for taxes laid on the said grounds or on property 

 thereon, shall be set apart and kept separate for the purpose of defray- 

 ing the expenses entailed by the provision of this act, and any moneys 

 remaining after the payment of said expenses shall be paid into and 

 credited to the school fund. 



Sec. 8. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and empowered 

 to hire and take upon leases, not exceeding a term of ten years, in the 

 name and behalf of the State, any such plot or plots of ground within 

 the State as may be deemed necessary for the constructing, erecting, 

 setting, maintaining and protecting of signals, beacons, bound-stones, 

 posts or buoys to be used in designating, locating, surveying or map- 

 ping any shellfish grounds, and any person who shall willfully injure or 

 remove an\' such beacon, bound-stone, post or buoy, ov any part, ap- 

 purtenance or enclosure thereof, or any buoy, stake, mark or range 

 of any private ov public shellfish ground, shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor. 



Sec. 9. All grounds taken up or held under this or previous acts 

 shall be subject to taxation as real estate and shall be so considered in 

 the settlement of the estates of deceased or insolvent persons. 



Sec. 10. The Board of County Commissioners shall have entire con- 

 trol and jurisdiction over all public grounds lying within the bound- 

 aries of the counties, shall place and maintain suchs marks, and shall 

 prescribe and publish at the court-house door and at four other public 

 places in the county, such rules and regulations as may be neces- 

 sary for the governance and control of the fisheries on such public 

 grounds. 



Sec. II. Any person who shall willfully commit any trespass or in- 



