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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and seventy-five cents for one oyster canners' or packers'
license, which said sum Was by the said Charles Lake, as
aforesaid, duly reported to and paid into the Treasury of the
State of Maryland.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, Subsequently the Circuit Court for Dorchester
County, passing upon the law requiring persons alleged as
was the said William Wood Cook in packing oysters to take
out a license therefor, decided that no license ought nor should
have been required, and the defendant thereupon was acquitted.

Refund a sum
of money to
William Wood
Cook.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby authorized
and directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of the
State of Maryland for the sum of twenty-five dollars in favor
of William Wood Cook erroneously exacted from and paid by
him as aforesaid.

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 693.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
253, 254, 255 and 256 of Article 10 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Dorchester County," sub-title "Oysters,"
as such sections were codified in 1888, and all amendments
thereto.

Dorchester Co.
Oysters

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 253, 254, 255 and 256, as codified in 1888,
and all amendments thereto of Article 10 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Dorchester County," sub-title "Oysters,"
be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

Lawful for
citizen to
catch oysters
with scoops,
scrapes, etc.,
in boats not
exceeding
certain tons
gross tonnage

253. It shall be lawful for the citizens of Dorchester County
to catch oysters with scoops, scrapes or dredges in boats
owned by said citizens not exceeding seven tons gross ton-
nage, according to the rules of custom-house measurement,
such measurement to be ascertained as hereinafter provided, to
take oysters in the following waters, namely : In Honga River,
Hooper's Straits, Holland Straits, Taw Bay, and that part of

Within certain
limits.

Fishing Bay which lies to the southward and eastward of
Clay Island, in Dorchester County, and adjoining the
Wicomico line up to Sandy Island, and in the waters of the
Great Choptank River, where it is now lawful to take oysters
with scoops, scrapes or dredges; but no boat licensed under