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provisions of this section by buying or carrying or knowingly
selling such seed oysters to be carried elsewhere, or for any
other purpose than to be planted in the waters of Maryland or
Virginia, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor
more than one thousand dollars, and in addition thereto the
boat or vessel so used shall, with its cargo and equipment, be
forfeited to the State wherein such offender is convicted; pro-
vided, no permit shall be granted to any person engaged in
taking or catching, buying or carrying seed oysters or having
in his possession oysters measuring less than two and one-half
inches from hinge to mouth, who shall have any scoop, scrape
or dredge or any part thereof, on any boat or vessel to be used
in taking, buying or carrying seed oysters, and it shall be the
duty of the officer who issues said permit to first inspect said
boat or vessel and satisfy himself that no such appliance is on
said boat or vessel before he issues any permit; and any person
who shall have any scoop, scrape or dredge, or any part thereof,
on any boat or vessel engaged in catching, buying or carrying
seed oysters or oysters measuring less than two and one-half
inches from hinge to mouth, and any owner or master of any
boat or vessel violating the provisions of this section by having
any scrape, scoop or dredge or any part thereof on any boat or
vessel engaged in taking, catching, buying or carrying seed
oysters shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars
nor more than five hundred dollars, and in addition thereto, the
boat or vessel so used with its cargo and equipments be forfeited
to the State wherein such offender is convicted.

SEC. 6. Regulations for the faking of fish and crabs in the
Potomac River—How licenses procured—Penalties. Any citi-
zen of Maryland or of Virginia desiring to fish for market or
profit with a pound net, fyke net, gill net, haul seine, sturgeon
net, skirt net, weir or other device, in the waters of Potomac
River, shall first apply to the regularly constituted officer as
determined by the laws or regulations of the State of which he
is resident, and in the district or locality in which said appli-
cant resides, except that the applicant for license to fish with
the fixed device shall apply to the officer of the district or local-
ity in which such fixed device is proposed to be located for a
license, and state on oath the true name or names of the person
or persons applying for said license; that they are and have
been for twelve months next preceding residents of the State
in which such application has been made; the place at which
the net, seine, fyke, weir or other device is to be fished, and
that during the period of the license he will not violate any of
the laws of the State in which he resides in relation to the