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Limits.
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Sec. 16. And be it enacted, That it shall be un-
lawful for any owner, master, employee or other
person to use or employ any boat or vessel licensed
under this Article, to take or catch oysters with
scoops, scrapes, drag or dredge, in taking or catch-
ing oysters in any river, creek, cove, inlet, bay or
sound within the limits of any county of this
State, or on any oyster bed, bar or rock, on or
about Talley's Point, Sandy Point, Hackett's
Point, Thomas' Point, the Three- Sisters, Hol-
land's Point Bar, Plum Point, and Parker 's
Creek on the western side of Chesapeake Bay,
and Swan Point on the eastern side of said bay,
and Eastern Bay, inside of a line drawn from Kent
Point to Poplar Island, and any owner, master,
employee or other person so offending, shall upon
conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace
or Judge of any Circuit Court for any county be
subject to the same fines and penalties, and the
boat or vessel so used or employed, be liable to
seizure and forfeiture as provided in section six
of this Article, but this section nor any in this
Article shall be construed as a repeal of sections
ninety-four to one hundred and one inclusive, of
Article nineteen of the Code of Public Local Laws
for Somerset county, relating to oysters.
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Property con-
demned and
sold.
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Sec. 17. And be it enacted, That all boats, ves-
sels or other property condemned under the pro-
visions of this Article, shall be sold by the Sheriff
of the county where such boat, vessel or other
property may be condemned at public sale, after
giving twenty days notice of the time and place
of such sale by advertisement in one or more news-
papers published in the county where such con-
demnation may be made, but if the articles con-
demned be perishable in their character, then the
notice may be shorter than twenty days at the
discretion of the Justice, and by such other notice
as he may deem expedient, to the highest bidder
therefor, for cash, and the proceeds of such sale
or sales after deducting all the necessary and legal
expenses of seizure, condemnation and sale, shall
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