Chap. 34.—An ACT toamend the act repealing. amending and re-enacting
the Istand 2d sect ons of chapter 62 of the Code of T8600. in retation
to Waste and Unappropriated Lands, passed February 28, 1s¢6,

Passed March 20, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act re-
pealing, amending and re- enacting the first and second sce-
tions of chapter sixty-two of the Code of eighteen hundred
and sixty, in relation to waste and unappropriated lands,
passed February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and RIX tY-
six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows

“8 1. All unappropriated lands on the bay of Chesapeake,
on the sea shore, or on the shores of rivers or creeks which
remained ungranted according to the provisions of the acts
of the gen neral assembly of seventeen hundred and cighty
and eighteen hundred and two, and which have been used as
a common to all the people of this state, shall be sold under
the direction of the Board of public works, in such quan.
tities and upon such terms, either at public or private sale,
as they shall deem most advisable for the interest of the
state. But should the said board deem it advisable, they are
hereby authorized to lease or rent any part thereof which
can be used for fisheries, upon such terms and tor such time
as they may deem of interest to the state, if, after an effort
to sell the same, they deem it unadvisable to dispose of them.
Upon the sale of any such Jands, the said board mey.convey
to the purchasers thereof’ all the right and title of the state
in and to said lands: provided, however, that the said lands
shall not be sold for less than one dollar per acre.

Ҥ2. The rights and privileges of the owners of such
lands, acquired as aforesaid, shall extend to ordinary low
water mark, and no further, unless where a creek or river, or
some part thereof, is comprised in the limits of a lawful sur-
vey. ”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.