SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1595

standing and unpaid, an ad valorem tax on all property subject to
taxation, within Charles County, sufficient in rate and amount to
pay the interest payable in said year on all outstanding bonds and
the principal of all bonds maturing in said year, the proceeds of
said tax to be kept in a special fund and in no case to be used for
any other purpose. In case such bonds shall be issued in any year
after the making of the regular levy for that year, then the County
Commissioners of Charles County are empowered, authorized and
directed to pay any and all interest becoming due before the next
levy, out of any other funds at their disposal, and to levy at the
next succeeding levy an amount sufficient to reimburse such other
funds.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved May 4, 1967.

CHAPTER 731
(House Bill 495)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 708 (u) of
Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and
1966 Cumulative Supplement), title "Natural Resources," subtitle
"Oysters and Clams," removing a restriction concerning operation
of boats in Anne Arundel County, and eliminating a penalty for a
violation of this subsection relating to Anne Arundel County AND
TO PROVIDE THAT OYSTERS MAY BE TAKEN BY DREDG-
ING FROM THE DORCHESTER COUNTY WATERS OF THE
NANTICOKE RIVER.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 708(u) of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1957 Edition and 1966 Cumulative Supplement), title "Natural
Resources," subtitle "Oysters and Clams," be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

708.

(u) A lessee is privileged to cultivate or remove oysters so planted
on his leased area in any manner that he deems proper, provided he
has complied with the law providing for the licensing of boats or
tongers in removing them for market or transplanting; and provided,
however, that no lessee or holder of any submerged area in Dorches-
ter, Wicomico, Charles (in waters other than the Patuxent River),
Queen Anne's or Kent counties, or in the Manokin River in Somerset
County, shall take or catch oysters on such leased land by any device
other than tongs or patent tongs [, and provided further that in
Anne Arundel County no boat other than one in which the lessee or
holder of any submerged lands has at least a partial interest shall
operate such leased land]. Notwithstanding the provisions of this
subsection applicable to Dorchester County, it is lawful to take