STATE LAND LAWS 

 SEC. 362 SEED OYSTERS REMOVAL. 



SEC. 362. TAKING OF SEED OYSTERS. 



No license shall be granted to take seed from any oyster land 

 reserve except between the first day of April and the fifteenth 

 day of June of each year, and at no time before five o'clock in 

 the morning, or after eight o'clock in the evening ; and no person, 

 persons or corporation shall take from the state oyster land re- 

 serves an amount of oysters to exceed five hundred sacks to each 

 acre prepared for seeding, and all seed taken from the state's 

 oyster land reserves under the provisions of this act* must be 

 used upon lands situated in the State of Washington and de- 

 scribed in the application for license. Any person, company or 

 corporation desiring to take oysters from the state's oyster land 

 reserves for the purpose of seeding his, her or their oyster beds, 

 may make application to the State Oyster Commission for a 

 license so to do, said application to be made upon forms to be 

 provided by said State Oyster Commission in substance as fol- 

 lows : It shall show the date when made ; the name of the person, 

 company or corporation making the same; a description of the 

 land upon which the oysters are to be placed, said description 

 of land to show county, township, name of bay or inlet where land 

 is located; state the amount of land prepared for seeding, and 

 how prepared; whether the same is diked or not; whether it is 

 hard ground or mud, and if mud ground, whether any crust or 

 shell, sand or other substance, has been formed to protect the 

 seed oysters. The applicant must state in application the num- 

 ber of sacks of oysters desired to be taken under the license, 

 which amount must not exceed five hundred sacks per acre for 

 all ground properly prepared to receive them. Where the ap- 

 plicant desires the license to be made in the name of any other 

 person than himself or themselves or his or their agent, he shall 

 so state. And no person, firm or corporation shall take oysters 

 from any of the reserves in this state, without first having pro- 

 cured a license so to do. The applicant must agree to pay to 

 the State Oyster Commission, under such rules as they may pre- 

 scribe, the sum of twenty-five cents per sack on Puget Sound and 

 ten cents per sack in all other places for all oysters taken under 



