EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 33. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts

inconsistent herewith be and they are hereby repealed.

SEC. 34. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 598.

AN ACT to repeal Section 46 of Article 72 of the Code of

Public General Laws, title "Oysters," as amended by Acts

of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1894, so far as the

same applied to the Patuxent river, and to enact in lieu

thereof the following:

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Section 46 of Article 72 of the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, title "Oysters," as amended by the Laws of Mary-

Oysters — Pa-
tuxent river.

land of 1894, so far as the same applied to the Patuxent river,

be repealed and enact in lieu thereof the following :

46. The owner of any land in Calvert County bordering on

the Patuxent river, in the State of Maryland, shall have the

Privileges

privilege to locate and appropriate in any of the waters of

granted to
plant oysters,

the Patuxent river or its tributaries, adjoining his, her or

etc.

their lands, one lot of five acres for the purpose of protecting,

preserving, depositing, bedding or sowing oysters, and any

male or female citizen of Calvert County of full age shall

have power to locate and appropriate and hold one lot of five

acres, and no more, in any waters of the Patuxent river or its

tributaries; provided, thirty days' notice in writing shall be

given the owner or occupant of land bordering on the waters

proposed to be located, and if such owner fails to locate or ap-

propriate to his own use the said waters mentioned in said

notice within thirty days after receiving the same, then it

shall be open and free to anyone under the provisions of this

section; provided, also, that said location shall be marked by

stakes or other designating marks; provided, also, that said

location shall be made by a competent surveyor, describing

the same by metes and bounds, and plot the same, which plot,

with its metes and bounds shall be recorded in one of the Land

Record books of Calvert County; provided, also, that such

location does not interfere with or impede the free navigaton

Free naviga-

of said waters ; and, provided, that no natural bar or bed of

tion of said

oysters shall be located or appropriated; the term natural