JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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CHAPTER 77.

AN ACT to repeal section one, of an act passed at

the January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-

two, chapter one hundred and thirty-one, entitled

an act for the better protection of, oysters, clams,

terrapins and fish in Synepuxent Bay and its tribu-

taries, in Worcester county, and to re-enact the

same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section one of an act passed at the

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,

chapter one hundred and thirty-one, entitled " an

act for the better protection of oysters, clams, terra-

Repealing and
re-enacting

pins and fish in Synepuxent Bay and its tributaries,

in Worcester county," be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SECTION 1. A. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That it shall be lawful for any citizen of

the State of Maryland, to take out a license from the

Clerk of the Circuit Court of Worcester county,

License to take
oysters

aforesaid, which shall have effect from the first day

of May, in the year in which the said license is issued

to the first day of May, in the year next succeeding;

for which said license the applicant shall pay the sum

of three dollars, and the said clerk shall pay over

Fee lor.

said money to the County Commissioners of said

county, to be expended by the said County Com-

missioners of said county, in the purchase of seed

oysters to be planted in said Synepuxent Bay; and

upon taking out such license, and not otherwise, it

shall be lawful for the said citizens so obtaining the

same, to take or remove oysters from the natural

rocks in the waters of said Synepuxent Bay or in any
of its tributaries, included in the boundaries of said

Worcester county, with rakes or tongs; provided, that

Proviso.

this act shall not authorize the taking or catching of

oysters with rakes or tongs or any other instrument,

between the first day of May and the first day of

October in each year, which is hereby expressly

forbidden ; and provided that nothing herein shall be

so construed as to prevent any person from catching