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SAINT MARY'S COUNTY.

against
dreaders.

lawful, and it is hereby made the duty of any constable in
Saint Mary's county, when required so to do by warrant issued
from any justice of the peace in said county, to proceed forth-
with to arrest and bring to trial and punishment, any person or
persons offending against the provisions of the original act to
which this is a supplement, in the same manner as the sheriff
of the said county is by said original act required to do ; and
for this purpose the said constable is hereby clothed, whenever
be shall be acting under the authority of a warrant from a jus-
tice of the peace as aforesaid, with all and as full powers, in
every respect, for the purposes of said act, as are by said origi-
nal act given to, and vested in the sheriff of the said county.

Catching
fur lime
forbid.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That from and after the pas-
sage of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person or per-
sons whatsoever, to take, catch or carry away oysters from any
cove or oyster bed, in St. Jerome's or Point Look Out creek,
in Saint Mary's county, for purposes of being converted into
lime, under the penalty of ten dollars for every such offence,
to be received and collected as other small debts are recovered,
and when such fine shall be so recovered, one-half of said fine
shall go to the informer, and the remainder towards defraying
the expenses of the county ; Provided always, that nothing
herein contained, shall be so construed as to prevent any per-
son or persons in said county, from catching and using for pur-

On bars
permitted.

poses of manure, oysters from any bars or places where there
are large accumulations of small oysters and shells: but they
shall have full power and authority to resort to all such bars or
large accumulations of oysters, in any creek or river in said
county, taking therefrom oysters for the purposes aforesaid.

Staking out
fur planting
oysters.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful at any time after the passage of this act, for any citizen
of said county, to survey, take up, and stake out for his use or
benefit, in any of the bays, rivers, creeks or coves in the county
aforesaid, not exceeding one acre in extent, for the purpose of
depositing, bedding or sowing oysters ; Provided, they con-
form to the provisions of the second section of the act of eigh-
teen hundred and twenty-nine, chapter eighty-seven, except
so far as to the limitation of the time therein provided.

PATROL.
AN ACT to establish a Patrol in Saiut Mary's, Anne Arundel, Prince
George's and Charles Counties —1820, ch 200.
See 'Anne Arundel County,' title 'Patrol,' ante page 1371.

POOR.
Ac ACT for the relief of the Poor in Saint Mary's County.— 1773, ch. 18.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the necessity, number and continual increase, of
the poor within said county is very great, and exceedingly