JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 247

CHAPTER 181.
AN ACT to repeal article seventy-one, of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Oysters," as amend-
ed and re-enacted by chapter three hundred and
sixty-four, of the acts passed at January session,
eighteen hundred and seventy, and also chapter
one hundred and sixty-seven, of the acts passed at
the January session, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-two.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That chapter three hundred and sixty-four, of	Repealed and
the acts passed at the January session, eighteen hun-	enacted in lieu
dred and seventy, and chapter one hundred and
sixty-seven, of the acts passed at January session,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and the same
are hereby repealed, and the following enacted in
lieu thereof, and to be article seventy-one, of the
Code of Public General Laws, title " Oysters."
SEC. 1. Be it enacted, That no steamer shall be	Prohibited
used in catching oysters in this State, and no other
boat shall be used in catching oysters with scoop,
dredge or similar instrument, without first having
been licensed as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the Comptroller of the	Issue license
Treasury shall, upon application .of any person who	to catch oysters
has been a resident of this State for twelve con-
secutive months next preceding such application, and
to no other person, issue a license to such resident to
employ such boat in" catching oysters with scoop,
dredge or similar instrument, within the waters of
the Chesapeake Bay, and in Eastern Bay, outside of
a line drawn from the southwest corner of second
Kent Point to Wade's Point; provided, that nothing
herein contained shall authorize the catching of
oysters with scoop, dredge or similar instrument, on
any oyster bar within one and a-half miles of Talley's
Point, Sandy Point, Hackett's Point, Thomas' Point,
Holland Island Bar, Three Sisters, Swan Point Bar,
Poplar Island, one-quarter of a mile west of, and be-
tween the island and the main land, nor within half
mile of Plum Point, and to buy and sell oysters in