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Repealed.
Re-enacted.
To obtain li-
cense to take
or catch
oysters-
Proviso
License to
state name
and residence
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 167.
AN ACT to repeal sections seven and eight, of
article seventy-one, of the Code of Public General
Laws, entitled " Oysters," as amended and re-
enacted by the Act of eighteen hundred and
seventy, chapter three hundred and sixty-four,
regulating the taking and catching of oysters with
rakes and. tongs, and requiring a license therefor,
and to re-enact the same to read as follows:
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That sections seven and eight, of article
seventy-one, of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled " Oysters," as amended and re-enacted by
the Act of eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter
three hundred and sixty-four, be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
SEC. 7. Be it enacted. That any resident of this State,
owning or having in his possession, any canoe or other-
boat under Custom House tonnage, and desiring to
use said canoe or boat in taking or catching oysters for
sale, with rakes or tongs, in any of the waters of this
State, shall first obtain by application to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court of the county, wherein lie may desire
or intend to use said canoe or boat, in taking or
catching oysters for sale, with rakes or tongs, a
license therefore, and such license shall have effect
from the first day of June in the year in which it
may have been obtained, to the first day of June
next succeeding, provided, that such license shall not
authorize the use of said canoe or boat in taking or
catching oysters in any creek, river, cove, inlet, bay
or sound, within the limits of any county other than
that wherein the license shall have been granted.
SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That each and every license to
take or catch oysters for sale, with rakes or tongs, shall
' state the name and residence of the person, to whom
the same is to be granted, the number together with
the length, (to be obtained by top or overall measure-
ment,) of the canoe or other boat to be licensed,
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