148 Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 
AN ACT SETTING ASIDE CLAM ROCKS IN 
POCOMOKE SOUND. 
(Approved April 6th.) 
AN ACT to prescribe additional duties to be performed by 
the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners, to the duties 
already prescribed to them by Chapter 711, of the Acts 
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1906. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
Maryland, that it shall be the duty of the Board of Shell Fish 
Commissioners, as soon after the passage of this Act as prac- 
ticable to have laid out, surveyed, and designated on charts 
provided for such purpose, Grant Rock, Ware Rock, and Flat 
Rock, being clam rocks located in the waters of Pocomoke 
Sound, in Somerset County and State of Maryland, and shall 
cause to be marked and defined as accurately as practicable 
the limits and boundaries of each of the above named rocks, 
and they shall take true and accurate notes of said survey and 
make the report and perform all other duties connected with 
said survey as said duties are prescribed by Chapter 711 of 
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1906, per- » 
taining to natural oyster beds and bars. 
Section 2. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
Maryland, that after said rocks shall have been surveyed, as 
provided in Section 1 of this Act, no part of them shall be 
leased to any person or persons for the purpose of planting, 
bedding or cultivating oysters therein, but they shall be re- 
served to the public in the State of Maryland for the sole pur- 
pose of taking clams therefrom and shall be treated in every 
particular as are the natural oyster beds or bars which have 
been or shall be surveyed by the Board of Shell Fish Com- 
missioners, under Chapter 711 of the Acts of the General 
Assembly of Maryland of 1906. 
Section 3. And be it further enacted, that this Act shall 
take effect from the date of its passage. 
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