PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 31

CHAPTER 4.

AN ACT providing for the enactment of concurrent legislation
regarding the fish and shellfish industry in the Potomac
River in consequence of the compact entered into between
the States of Maryland and Virginia on the twenty-eighth
day of March, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five,
and to repeal all acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
act.

WHEREAS, a necessity has arisen for the enactment of concur-
rent legislation regarding the fish and shellfish industry in
the Potomac River in consequence of the compact entered
into between the States of Maryland and Virginia on the
twenty-eighth day of March, in the year seventeen hundred
and eighty-five;

Therefore, be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
as follows:

SFCTION 1. Who may or who may not take fish, oysters or
crabs in the Potomac River—Penalties. It shall be lawful for
any citizen of the State of Maryland or of the State of Virginia
to take fish., oysters or crabs from the Potomac River after
complying with the requirements of the laws of the State of
which he is a citizen for the taking of fish, oysters or crabs
from the waters of such State; and any citizen of either State
who takes fish, oysters or crabs from the Potomac River with-
out having complied with the requirements of the law of his
State as to the taking of fish, oysters or crabs in its own waters
shall be considered guilty of violating the laws of the State
of which he is a citizen, and shall be prosecuted according to
such laws. It shall not be lawful for any person to take or
catch fish, oysters or crabs in any manner whatever in the
waters of the Potomac River unless he be a citizen of Mary-
land or of Virginia, and shall have been a resident of the
State of which he is a citizen for twelve months immediately
preceding. Any such non-resident violating this section shall
be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars; furthermore, any
vessel, with its equipment and cargo, or any net or other appli-
ances used in violating this section, shall be deemed forfeited
to the State.

SEC. 2. Restrictions as to the time and manner of taking
oysters. It shall not be lawful for any citizen of Maryland or
of Virginia to take or catch oysters with a scoop, scrape,