134 Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 
charts have been filed or directed to. be filed, as hereinafter 
provided; the said report to be filed by the Clerks of the 
several counties in a book kept for that purpose. And the 
said survey and report, when filed, subject to the right of 
appeal hereafter provided for in this Act, shall be taken in 
all of the Courts of this State as conclusive evidence of the 
boundaries and limits of all natural oyster beds, bars and 
rocks, lying within the waters of the county wherein such 
survey and report are filed, and shall be construed to mean 
in all of the said Courts that there are no natural oyster beds, 
bars or rocks lying within the waters of the counties wherein 
such report and survey are filed, other than those embraced 
in the survey authorized by this Act, and that all areas of 
the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries within the State of 
Maryland, not shown in the survey to be natural oyster beds, 
bar's or rocks, shall be construed in all the Courts of the State 
to be barren bottoms, and open for disposal by the State for 
the purpose of private planting or propagation of oysters 
thereon under the provisions of this Act; provided that the 
said survey and report shall not be so construed as to affect 
in any manner the holdings by citizens of this State in anv 
lot which may have been appropriated or taken up under the 
laws of this State prior to the approval of this Act. 
Section 90. The said Board, in defining the natural beds 
and bars, shall exercise its judgment liberally in favor of the 
natural beds and bars, and allow a reasonable margin of the 
barren bottoms, rather than encroach on a natural bed or bar. 
The natural beds or bars shall be bounded by straight lines, 
even though some portions of barren bottoms may thus be 
necessarily included within such lines. 
Section 91. If residents of any county, exceeding twenty- 
four in number, shall, within four months after the filing of 
said survey and report in such county, file in the Cireuit 
Court for said county a petition, in writing, attested by the 
oath of some one or more of the petitioners, alleging that five 
or more adjacent acres of oyster beds, bars or rocks, in such 
county, have been omitted from such surveys, or that five or 
more acres of barren bottoms have heen included in such 
survey and designating the location of same by a plat, or as 
near as may be with reasonable certainty by such land marks 
as will locate and designate the beds alleged to have been 
omitted or included, a Judge of the Circuit Court for the said 
county, after due notice given to the Board of Shell Fish Com- 
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