JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

line no appliance shall be used to take or catch oysters other
than the ordinary tongs worked by hand only; provided, how-
ever, that licensees "holding licenses under the State law shall
be permitted to work in other waters contiguous to said
counties for the entire season, covered by the said State law in
regard to tonging- oysters; any citizen of St. Mary's or Calvert
Counties desiring to take or catch oysters with tongs may
apply to the Clerk of the County of which he is a resident for
a license to take oysters in the Chesapeake Bay or Potomac
river during the time allowed by the General Oyster Law, and
such license shall be good for the entire oyster season; pro-
vided, however, that the provisions of Article 72 of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Oysters," shall apply as to the
culling of oysters in St. Mary's County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts, or parts of Acts,
inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed, so
far as inconsistent, and that this Act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1900.

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CHAPTER 98.
AN ACT to provide for a State Subscription to Perkins' An-
notated Maryland Report, and for an appropriation therefor.

WHEREAS, All the original volumes of the Maryland Re-
ports published between the years 1851 and 1893 have been
totally destroyed by fire, and

WHEREAS, A new annotated and revised edition of said
reports is now in course of publication, for which the copy-
right of all the original reports has been secured by purchase,
and which edition has been recommended by the Judges of
the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,
the Associate Judges of the State as well, as by the legal
profession, and

WHEREAS, Said edition is a continuation of Brantly's
Annotated Maryland Reports for which 100 sets for the use of
all the courts of the city and the State Library was author-
ized by the Act of 1884, Chapter 244, and

WHEREAS, So far but thirty-five sets of Perkins' Annotated
Maryland Reports have been subscribed for by the Act of
1898, Chapter 296.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the State Librarian be and he is hereby

Maryland Re-
ports des-
troyed by fire