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by stakes, buoys or monuments, under the supervision of the 
Commissioners. At least four of such stakes, buoys and 
monuments shall have the initials of the lessee plainly 
marked upon them, and such stakes, buoys or monuments 
shall be at all times during the existence of said lease con- 
tinued by the said lessee or his legal representative. 
Section 107. This Act is not intended to apply to any 
lands owned by private persons, the bounds of which extend 
below low water into or beneath the waters of this State. 
This Act shall not be so construed as to apply to any creek, 
cove or inlet, less than one hundred yards in width at its 
mouth at low tide. 
Section 108. Any person who has, prior to the passage of 
this Act, lawfully appropriated or taken up any land in this 
State, for the purpose of planting, bedding or cultivating oys- 
ters thereon, may become a lessee of said land for the term of 
twenty years from the passage of this Act, with all the inci- 
dents, including the payment of the rents of the lease contem- 
plated by this Act, provided such person gives written notice 
to the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of his intention to 
become such lessee within six months after the passage here- 
of. The holding of any person who may have appropriated 
any such land shall become void and of no effect in law, upon 
the expiration of the said period of six months from the pass- 
age hereof, if no such notice of intention will have been given 
within said period of six months. 
Section 109. The lessee of any land leased for the purpose 
of planting and cultivating oysters shall have exclusive owner- 
ship of and title to all oysters planted by him or existing on 
the land leased. 
Section 110. No assignment or transfer of any interest 
acquired by this Act shall be valid for any purpose if made to 
a non-resident of this State. If any such assignment is at- 
tempted to be made, all interest of the grantor, or assignor, 
shall revert to the State as if no lease had ever been made. If 
any assignment of any interest created by this Act is at- 
tempted to be made to any corporation or joint stock com- 
pany, all the interest of the grantor or assignor shall revert 
to the State as if no lease had ever been made. If any as- 
signment of any interest created by this Act is attempted to 
be made to any person in such a way that the assignee shall 
become the holder of more than ten acres, or one hundred 
acres, as the case may be, according to the location of Jand 
