1794 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 31

Entitled "An Act to repeal and re-enact with amend-
ments section 172 of Article 20 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title 'Somerset County, ' sub-title 'Oysters. '"

" Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 172 of Article 20 of the Code of
Public Local Laws be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as fol-
lows:

"172. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset
county, upon the application of any person who has been
a resident of the county for six months and of the State
for twelve months immediately preceding his application
and is a bona fide owner of the vessel to be used by him,
or upon a certificate of any justice of the peace of said
county, certifying to such application, shall issue to such
citizen a license authorizing him to catch or take oysters
with scoop, scrape or dredge in any waters of said county
not parcel of any creek, liver, cove or inlet, which license
shall hold good for one oyster season only, and shall only
authorize the catching of oysters as aforesaid, between,
the 15th day of October in any year and the 15th day of
April next, succeeding, on which said last mentioned day
the said season shall close and end in said county, and
said license shall expire; but no vessel over ten and one
half tons gross tonnage, ascertained by proper custom
house measurement, shall be authorized to be used under
any such license, and no vessel over ten and one-half tons
gross tonnage shall be used or employed in taking oysters
in any waters of said county, and the said license shall
specify the canoe or vessel to be used by the licensee, the
number and name, and said citizen shall pay for said license
at the rate of two dollars per ton for the vessel so em-
ployed; and the tonnage of vessels and canoes, to be
licensed, shall be ascertained by Custom House measure-
ment, and no canoe or other vessel shall bo employed in
taking oysters with scrapes, scoops, drag or dredge, in
the waters of Somerset county, unless the owner thereof
shall have first obtained a license therefor as above pro-
vided, and any person having a license aforesaid for any
vessel, shall also provide a number on canvass to be pre-
scribed and furnished by the clerk of the Circuit Court,
of the same size as that required now or hereafter by the
State Oyster law, in red figures, corresponding with the