AMKRICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



jury with any instrument or iniplement upon any .i^round designated 

 under this act, upoii which shellfish are being raised or cultivated, or 

 siiali remove, destroy or detace any mark or monument set up by the 

 Board of County Commissioners, by virtue of Section lo of this act, 

 or who shall violate the rules and regulations prescribed by the said 

 board of the governance and control of the fishery on the public 

 grounds, or who shall work on any oyster ground at night shall 

 be guilty of a misdemeanor. But nothing in the provision of 

 this or any act shall be construed as autnorizing interference with the 

 capture of migratory fishes or free navigation or the right to use on 

 any private ground any method or implement for the taking, growing 

 or cultivation of shellfish. 



Sec. 12. Entry takers shall make return to the Secretary of State of 

 all franchises granted under this act in the same manner as provided 

 in Section 2,776 of the Code, and the provisions of Sections 2,777 and 

 2.778 of the Code are hereby extended so as to cover the grants or 

 franchises in grounds for raising or cultivating shellfish as authorized 

 by this act, and all applications, grants, warrants and assignments of 

 franchises in or to oyster grounds, shall be in manner and form as ap- 

 proved by the Attorney General of the State. 



Sec. 13. All grants of grounds under previous acts for the purpose 

 of cultivating shellfish in the territory within the provisions of this 

 act are hereby confirmed and made good in the grantees, their heirs 

 and assigns, provided the holders of said grounds shall, within one 

 year, file with the Secretary of State certified copies of their licenses 

 and surveys, and that the said surveys be found correct by the en- 

 gineer of the commissioners of shellfisheries, and in case such surveys 

 are said lo be incorrect, the grounds shall be resurveyed by said 

 engineer as soon as practicable, and in designating lots any person 

 who has made in good faith an actual effort to raise or cultivate shell- 

 fish on the area for which application is made, shall have the prior 

 right to a grant or franchise in said grounds ; but nothing contained 

 in the act shall be construed to validate any entry heretofore made of 

 a natural bed. 



Sec 14. The Commissioners of Shellfisheries shall keep books of re- 

 cord, in which shall be recorded a full description of all grounds 

 granted under the provisions of this act, and shall keep a map or maps 

 upon which shall be shown the position and limits of all public and 

 private grounds. 



Sec. 15. Any person who shall steal or feloniously take, catch or 

 capture, or carry away any shellfish from the bed or ground of another, 

 shall be guilty of larceny and punished accordingly. 



