JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 16.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Section 171 of Article 24 of
the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Worcester County,"
sub-title "Oysters and Fish," as said section was repealed
and re-enacted with amendents by Chapter 422 of the Acts
of 1896.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 171 of Article 24 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Worcester County," sub-title "Oysters
and Fish," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows:
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171. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester County
may issue to any citizen of said county a license to take or
catch oysters with rakes or tongs from the waters of Syne-
puxent Bay or its tributaries until the first day of May next
after issuing of said license, provided the applicant for said
license shall satisfy the said Clerk, by his own oath or other
sufficient proof, that he is a citizen of said county, and shall
pay to said clerk the sum of one dollar, to be paid by said
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Worcester
County Oyster
Law
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clerk to the County Commissioners of Worcester County to be
expended in the procuring of seed oysters to be planted in
said bay upon the natural rocks thereof, as said commission-
ers may direct; and upon taking out said license, and not
otherwise, it shall be lawful for said citizen so obtaining the
same, to take and remove oysters from the natural rocks in the
waters of said Synepuxent Bay and its tributaries, included
in the boundaries of said Worcester County, with rakes and
tongs, and not otherwise; but no person licensed as above,
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Source of funds
for seed
oysters.
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nor any person, shall take or remove oysters from the waters
of said bay or its tributaries on any Sunday or in the night at
any season, nor during the day from the first day of May to
the first day of September, or any shells from natural rocks of
said bay at any time; provided that nothing herein shall be
construed to forbid any person from taking or catching his own
planted oysters at any time, or with any kind of instruments;
and any person violating any of the provisions of this section
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Closed season.
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shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and shall
stand committed to the jail of Worcester County, if convicted,
until fine and costs are paid, or may be both fined and impris-
oned in said jail for not less than sixty days, in the discretion
of the court.
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Fine, etc., for
violations.
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