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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
ake effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 674.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
244, 245, 248, 249, 250 and 251 of Article 10, of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Dorchester County," sub-title
"Oysters," and to repeal and re-enact, with amendments,
Sections 155, 156, 159, 160, 161 and 162 of Article 21 of
the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Talbot County,"
sub-title "Oysters," as said sections appear, respectively in
Volumes i and 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws, and all
amendments and re-enactments of said sections in the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland since the codification
of the laws in eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; said sec-
tion being co-ordinate sections of law, applicable to the
waters of the Choptank river in common, between Dor-
chester and Talbot Counties.

Dorchester
and Talbot
Counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, 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

Oysters.

County," sub-title (of 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 eighteen hundred and eighty -eight; said sec-
tions being 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hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to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:

Clerks of
Circuit Courts
shall, upon
application of
owners, resi-
dent certain
time, issue
license to boat
of certain
capacity.

244 and 155. The Clerks of the Circuit Courts for Dor-
chester and Talbot Counties, respectively, shall upon appli-
cation of the managing owner, who has been a resident of the
county 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 the
custom-house measurement, as hereinafter provided, in tak-