JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

or be imprisoned in the county or city jail, or in the House of
Correction, for not less than one month nor more than twelve
months, in the discretion of such judge or justice of the peace;
provided, however, that any owner, master or person in charge
of a canoe or boat used in taking or catching oysters with
rakes or tongs, who shall be convicted of having in his pos-
session on said canoe or boat oysters containing more than
five per cent, of unmerchantable oysters, as provided in Section
eight, shall be required to cull his cargo and dispose of the
culls as required in Section 9, of this Article, and shall be
fined a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars,
in the discretion of the judge or justice of the peace before
whom such person shall be tried ; one-half of every fine imposed
for any violation of this section shall be paid to the informer,
unless he be an officer of the State Fishery Force.

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19. The Comptroller of the Treasury shall, upon application
of any person who has been a resident of this State for twelve
consecutive months next preceding his application, issue a
license to such resident and to no other person, to employ
such boat in taking or catching oysters with scoop, dredge or
similar instrument within the waters of the Chesapeake Bay,
Potomac River and in Eastern Bay, outside of a line drawn
from the southwest corner of First Kent Point to north end of
Poplar Island; provided, that nothing herein construed shall
authorize the taking or catching of oysters with scoop, dredge
or similar instrument, on any oyster bar within one and one-
half miles of Talley's Point, Sandy Point, Hackett's Point,
Thomas Point, Holland's Island bar and Three Sisters, nor
within one and one-half miles of Holland's Point bar, nor of
Swan's Point bar, nor between Poplar Island and the mainland
of Talbot County, south of a line drawn from the north point
of Poplar Island to Lowe's Point on the mainland, nor north
of a line drawn from the end of the south-bar of Poplar Island
to Pawpaw Cove, on Tilghman Island, nor within one quarter
of a mile west of Poplar Island, nor within one-half of a mile
of Plum Point, nor within the boundary lines of any county,

Comptroller
of the
Treasury shall
issue license
to persons
resident of
this State.

unless herein otherwise specified, which license shall hold
good for one season only, and shall only authorize the catching
of oysters between the first day of November and the fifteenth
day of March, on which day the dredging season shall end;
provided, however, that in the waters of the Potomac River
the beginning of the dredging season shall be on the fifteenth
day of October, but it shall be lawful for the owner of any such
licensed boat whenever said owner shall sell and convey by
bill of sale for a bona fide consideration such boat to any
person who has been a resident of the State of Maryland for at

License for one
season only
within certain
time.