Popham v. Conservation Commission

On February 27, 1945, Samuel J. Carr, a resident of -Edgewater, Maryland, filed an application for lease of a certain area with the Department of Tidewater Fisheries of the State of Maryland (herein referred to as Department). This area comprised eight acres of ground located in the Rhode River and in proximity of High Island, in the waters of Anne Arundel County, which area was marked by placing thereon not less than four stakes bearing Carr’s name. This application was duly published, warning any persons who desired to do so to file protests against leasing this area within thirty days from…