The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-05-12
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.
go, SO, "a, s5, s6.' 81, %, 90, 100, 101,
102, 103, 104, los, 100, 107, los, 100,
10, Ill, 112, 113, ia. lis, 116, III,
11S and 119.


eral Assembly of Maryland, That the
following sections be and they are
hereby added to Article Y of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Oysters,"
to follow section 50, and to be desig-
mated respectively as sections So, S4
So, Sc, 81, So, SO, so. 81. so, SO. "a, 80
SO, 81, 9S, 80, 100, 1O1. 102, 1913, 104, 105
log, 1O7 los. 100, no. III, 112, 11S, ia
lis. 116, III, rs and 119
Sec. So. Any resident of Maryland
shall have the right to plant and cul-
tivate oysters in the waters of this
State; such right shall be exercised
in the manner prescribed in the fol-
lowing. sections of this Act, and shall
be subject to the regulations, provisions
and limitations hereinafter set forth,
but no corporation, or joint stock COM
pany, shall be permitted to lease or
take up or to acquire by assignment,
or other wise, any lands of the State for
oyster planting or cultivation. All nat
ural beds or bars shall be excluded
from the operation of this Act and no
person shall be permitted to plant or
cultivate oysters thereupon, or in any
way appropriate the same to his own
use
Section 81. The Board of Shell Fish
Commissioners of Maryland is hereby
created. The said board shall consist
| of three members, one of whom shall be
a resident of one of the tide water
counties of the Eastern Shore of Mary
land, another a resident of one of the
| tide water counties of the Western
| Shore, and third a resident of the city
OF Baltimore and one of whom shall be
member of the minrity party at the
! time of their appointment. The term
of each of the members of said board
shall be two years from the first Mon
! day in May after his appointment. They
shall be appointed by the Board of
| Public Works of the State of Maryland.
/ No member of said Board of Shell Fish
| Fish Commissioners shall be in any
manner interested in any land leased or
taken up for bedding, planting, or Gull
| tlVatlng oysters. The acts and duties
to be done and performed by said board
| under this Act may be done and per-
! formed by two of said commissioners,
and in all cases, the decision of ma
| Jority of the commissioners shall be
binding. One of said commissioners
| shall be designated by the Board of
! Public Works of the State of Maryland
as president, and his salary shall be
! two thousand dollars a year The sal
airy of each of the other commissioners
shall be eighteen hundred dollars
| year. The said commissioners shall be
allowed to employ chief clerk upon
salary of twelve hundred dollars
year. and such assistants. not exceed
I ing three in number, and not more than
may be absolutely needed for the per-
| torrance of the work of the board at
/ graded salaries, to be paid by the COM
missioners, not to exceed one thousand
| dollars a year for any such assistants,
as 1T may deem necessary to aid it in
| the proper performance of its duties.
| as prescribed in this Act The said
| commissioners shall employ compe-
| tent surveyor, who shall also be a hy-
| geographic engineer, upon a salary to
| be named by said commissioners not
| exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars
a year. If the commissioners deem it
! eXpedient to employ a hydrogra phic en-
| gineer who is also a biologist. capable
| OF investigating oyster propagation, an
| engineer of such qualification may in
! their discretion be employed. The sum
! of five hundred dollars per annum shall
! be appropriated, to be expended under
the direction of said engineer. if he be
| a biologist, who shall, in that event
! establish one or more stations for said
! investigation of oyster propa cation. All
| salaries OUTLAWS and disbursem ents au-
| thorized by this Act shall be paid out
| OF the general treasury of the State of
! Maryland upon acquisitions made by the
| Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. en-
J dorsed by the Comptroller of the State
but the same shall be repaid out of the
! first revenues arising from the leas-
! ing of land for oyster culture con-
templated by this Act. The COM
customers composing said board shall.
Immediately after their, appointment
file in the office of the clerk
of the Court of Appeals. separate
| bonds. with a surety or sureties to be
approved by the State Treasurer. in the
| sum of ten thousand dollars. conditioned
for the faithful performance of the du-
| ties imposed by this Act The said COM
mssioners shall take and subcribe be-
fore the Governor of the State an Off
cial oath prescribed by the Constitu-
ton. The said commissioners shall
have an Office in the city of Annapolis
/ Section IS. The commissioners shall
keep, at it's office in the city of Anna
other colnVe3ah6e2 OF 7;ffff{ Pptp epts and
for the planting or cultivation of oys-
ters in accordance with this Act. A
set of clear and simple forms. for all
| subsequent conveyances of any kind
shall be prepared by the board
With the advice Of the Attorney-G ener-
AL and no title shall be vested in any
lessee or transferee of any interest or
estate acquired under this Act until the
| conveyance or cOnVeyancCS eVidencinG
such leases or transfers will have been
recorded in the Office of the Board of
| Shell Fish Commissioners.
Section Sc The Board of Shell Fish
! Commissioners shall, as soon as prac-
! ticable. after passage of this Act cause
| to be made a true and accurate survey
of the natural oyster beds. bars and
| rocks of this State, said survey to be
| made with reference to fixed and per-
| manent objects on the shore, giving
| courses and distances, to be fully de-
scribed and set out in written report
| of said survey, as hereinafter required,
| A true and accurate delineation of the
| same shall be made on copies OF pub
| liShed maps and charts of the United
| States Coast and Geodetic Survey, which
! said copies shall be filed in the office of
| the said commissioners in the city OF
Annapolis; and the said commission
| erS shall further cause to be dellneated
upon copies of the published maps and
charts of the United States Coast and
| Geodetic Survey, of the largest scale
| one copy for each of the counties OF
| this State in the waters of which there
are natural oyster beds. bars and rocks.
all natural beds, bars and rocks lying
within the waters of such county, which
maps shall be filed in the offices of the
| Clerks of the Circuit Court for the re-
spective counties. wherein the grounds
| so designated may lie. The said sur
vey shall be made by the photographic
| engineer employed by said board, as
! provided in section 81 of this Act. act
ing under the direction and control of
! the said commissioners. The said nat
ural beds or bars shall be marked by
buoys, which shall be known as State
| bouys.
Section 81 The Governor of this
State is hereby requested to ask the
| assistance of the United States Coast
| and Geodetic Survey and of the United
States Fish Commissioner. to aid in
the carrying out of the provisions Of
| the preceding section.
Section SIS. The County Commission
ers of each and every county in this
State. in which there are natural oyS-
| ter beds bars or rocks. shall be au-
thorized to appoint some resident o.
| their said county, who is well &C
quainted with the situation and loca-
i ton of oyster beds, bars and rocks.
| in the waters of such county who shall
| aid the Board by furnishing any infor-
! nation he may possess concerning the
! situation and location or recognized
oyster beds, bars and rocks in the wat
ers of such county, and who shall ac-
| company the said commissioners and
the photographic engineer appointed
by said Board, but only within the
limits of his county, in the making of
the survey of the natural oyster beds,
bars and rocks as provided by this
Act the said appointee to receive q
compensation of five dollars per day
when actually so engaged.
Section 50, AS soos as practicable
after the first day of April, 1906, the
said commissioners shall organize