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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 437.

AN ACT to authorize the citizens of Talbot and

Dorchester counties to take or catch oysters, with

dredge, scoop, or scrape, in the waters of the

Choptank River.

Issue license

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Clerk of the Circuit Court for

Talbot or Dorchester county shall, upon the applica-

tion of any person who has been a resident of such

county for twelve months, next preceding such ap-

plication, and to no other person, issue a license to

such resident to employ any boat, of a capacity of

ten tons or under, such capacity to be ascertained by

custom-house measurement, in taking or catching

oysters with dredge, scoop or scrape, in the waters

of the Choptank River in said counties, between the

fifteenth day of September in each year and the first

Proviso

day of May next following; provided, that nothing

in this act shall authorize the taking of oysters with

dredge, scoop or scrape in said river above a line

drawn from Clora's Point in Talbot county to upper

end of Castle Haven Point in Dorchester county, or in

Proviso

iinytributaries of said river ; and provided further, that

the applicant shall pay to said clerk, before the is-

suing of said license, the sum of three dollars per

ton, according to the capacity of the vessel to be li-

censed, which said license shall be good for twelve

months from the day of its isaue ; and until such li-

cense is obtained, it shall be unlawful to use or em-

ploy any vessel in taking or catching oysters as here-

Proviso

inbefore described; provided, that the waters of

Talbot, lying between Black Walnut Point and

Wade's Point, shall be opened to the citizens of Tal-

bot county licensed under this act, but it shall be

unlawful to take oysters with scoop or dredge in any-

other waters of Talbot county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the owner of such

Make oath.

boat shall make oath before the said clerk that he is

the bona fide owner of such boat, which boat shall be

described in the license, that he has been a resident

of the county in which his application is made for

twelve months, that there is no lien on said boat

held by a non-resident, and that such boat is not