EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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be held at a station house as heretofore, until brought before

the justice; and when such justice shall commit any minor for

trial or for hearing, he may commit such minor to a suitable

juvenile institution or other suitable prison instead of the

Baltimore City jail. The Board of Police Commissioners for

Policemen to

the City of Baltimore shall designate two or more members of

attend the
court.

the police force to attend said justice and execute his powers

and directions. In the absence of such justice the Governor

may designate any other justice of the peace for Baltimore

City to act in his place.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 522.

AN ACT to regulate the taking or catching of oysters in the

Patuxent river and its tributaries within the waters of Cal-

vert, Charles and St. Mary's Counties, and in the tributaries

of the Potomac river within Charles and St. Mary's Coun-

ties, and in the waters of Dorchester County and the Chop-

tank river.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That it shall be unlawful after the passage of this Act

Closed season

for any person or persons to take or catch oysters in any man-

for catching
oysters in

ner whatever in any of the waters of the .Patuxent river and its

certain

tributaries of St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert Counties or in

waters.

the tributaries of the Potomac river lying in St. Mary's and

Charles Counties between the first day of April and the first

day of October in each year, or in the waters of Dorchester

County or the Choptank river in said county, between the 25th

day of April and the 15th day of September in each year pro-

vided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed

as to prevent any person or persons from removing or trans-

planting oysters on private beds or taking oysters from private

beds for private use during the closed season, but not for sale.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That after the passage of this

Act any bona fide citizen of St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert

Licenses.

Counties who shall have procured a license from the Clerk of

the Circuit Court of the county in which he is a bona fide resi-

dent as prescribed in the General Oyster Law of the State of

Maryland, shall be permitted to use such license to take or