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in the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland since
the codification of the laws in 1888, said sections being.
co-ordinate sections of law applicable to the waters of
the Choptank river in common between Dorchester and
Talbot counties. "

"Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That sections 244, 245, 248, 249, 250 and 251,
of Article 10, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
'Dorchester County, ' and sections 155, 156, 159, 160, 161
and 162, of Article 21, of said Code of Public Local Laws,
title 'Talbot County, ' sub-title (in both Articles) 'Oysters, '

and all amendments and re-enactments of said sections
by the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland since
the codification of said Articles in 1888, said sections be-
ing co-ordinate sections of said Article in relation to the
taking of oysters in the waters in common between Dor-
chester and Talbot counties, be and the said sections are
hereby repealed and re enacted with amendments, so as
to read as follows:

"244 and 245. The clerks of the Circuit Court for Dor-
chester county and Talbot county, respectively, shall,
upon application of the managing owner who has been
a resident of the country in which he shall apply for one
year next preceding such application, and to no other
person, issue a license to such resident to employ his
boat of a capacity of seven gross tons or under, such
capacity to be ascertained by rules of Custom House
measurement as hereinafter provided in taking and catch-
ing oysters with dredge, scoop or scrape in the waters of
the Choptank river in said counties, for sale from the
first day of November and the fifteenth day of March,
next, succeeding:, both inclusive, on which last named day
the license shall expire; provided, that nothing in this
section shall authorize the taking of oysters with scoop,
scrape or dredge, above a straight line drawn from the
long wharf at Cambridge, known as 'Thomas' Wharf, ' on
the Dorchester shore to the bowdle house on the Talbot
shore immediately opposite; or in any tributary of said
river above or below said line; and provided further, that
the applicant shall pay such clerk the sum of one dollar
and ninety cents per gross ton, according to the capacity
of the vessels to be licensed, which capacity shall be deter-
mined by gross tonnage, and all boats measuring less than