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leased under this Act, all interest of the grantor or assignor, 
in case of such an assignment, shall revert to the State as if 
no lease had been made. 
Section 111. It shall be lawful for any tonger, between 
the 15th day of April and the 15th day of May in any year to 
take oysters from such natural beds or bars in the tonging 
districts of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, as the 
Commission may mark out for that purpose, and under such 
regulations as said Commission may from time to time pre- 
scribe; provided, however, that said oysters may be sold only 
for the purpose now permitted under existing laws of Mary- 
land, during the season of the year above mentioned; and in 
addition thereto, to persons engaged in the industry of plant- 
ing and cultivating oysters within the area designated by this 
Act, the same to be delivered only upon lands which may have 
been leased under the provisions of this Act for such pur- 
poses of planting or cultivating. 
Section 112. It shall not be necessary for any holder of 
oyster land under this Act to take out any license for dredg- 
ing, scraping or tonging oysters on any land so held by him, 
and oysters on such land may be taken in any manner and at 
such times as may be desired by the holder of such land as 
allowed by the existing laws of this State. 
Section 113. Any person who shall wilfully and without 
authority take or remove oysters from any land leased under 
the provisions of this Act, or shall wilfully injure or interfere 
with the oysters of such land in any manner, or injure the 
oysters thereupon situated, or remove, alter or interfere with 
the stakes, buoys or monuments marking the same, shall, upon 
conviction thereof, for the first offense, be sentenced to im- 
prisonment in jail or in the penitentiary, in the discretion of 
the Court, for not less than three months and not more than 
two years, and for the second, or any subsequent offense, be 
sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less 
than two years and not more than five years. 
Section 114. Any person who shall work a dredge, scrape 
or pair of tongs, or any other implement for the taking of 
oysters upon any land leased under the provisions of this Act 
without the consent of the lessee or owner, or who shall, while 
upon or sailing over any such ground or bed, cast, haul or 
have overboard any such dredge, scrape or pair of tongs, or 
other implement for the taking of oysters, under any pretense 
or for any purpose whatever, without the consent of such 
