EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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inclusive; provided, that nothing in this Act shall prohibit

any person from taking or catching oysters from his private

bed or bar.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person violating the

provisions of the preceding section shall be deemed guilty

Misdemeanor.

of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun-

ished as provided in Article 72 of the Code of Public General

Laws, title "Oysters."

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts,

so far as the same may be inconsistent with the provisions of

this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from July 1, 1904.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 468.

AN ACT to empower the Mayor and City Council of Balti-

more to issue the stock of said corporation to an amount

not exceeding six million dollars, for the purpose of sup-

plying additional means for defraying the expense and cost

of carrying into execution the plan of improvements adopted

or to be adopted under the terms of the Act to create a

Commission on the burnt district of Baltimore City, and

for other purposes, passed at the January Session of the

General Assembly of Maryland in the year 1904.

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and

Authority to

it is hereby authorized to issue its stock to an amount not

issue stock

exceeding six million dollars; said stock to be issued from

not exceeding
$6,000,000.

time to time as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

shall, by ordinance, provide ; and to be issued for such amounts

and to be payable at such time and to bear such rate of

interest as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall, by

ordinance, provide; and the proceeds thereof to be issued for

supplying additional means for defraying the expenses and

cost of carrying into execution the plan of improvements

adopted or to be adopted under the terms of the Act passed

at the January Session of the General Assembly of Maryland

Burnt District

in the year 1904, and entitled "An Act to create a Commission

Commission.

on the burnt district of Baltimore City ; to define its duties and