ART. 72] PATUXENT——POTOMAC——CHOPTANK. 1581

in this section shall prohibit any person from taking or catching oysters
from his private bed or bar.

1904, art. 72, sec. 53. 1901, ch. 407, sec. 2.

54. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding section
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished as provided in this article.

Patuxent—Potomac—Choptank.

Ibid. sec. 54. 1904. ch. 522, sec. 1.

55. It shall be unlawful after April 8, 1904. for any person or per-
sons to take or catch oysters in any manner whatever in any of the
waters of the Patuxent river and its tributaries of St. Mary's, Charles
and Calvert counties or in the tributaries of the Potomac river lying
in St. Mary's and Charles counties between the first day of April and
the first day of October in each year, or in the waters of Dorchester
county or the Choptank river in said county, between the 25th day of
April and the 15th day of September in each year; provided, however,
that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent any per-
son or persons from removing or transplanting oysters on private beds
or taking oysters from private beds for private use during the closed
season, but not for sale.*

Ibid. sec. 55. 1904, ch. 522, sec. 2.

56. After April 8, 1904, any bona fide citizen of St. Mary's,
Charles and Calvert counties who shall have procured a license from
the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which he is a bona fide
resident as prescribed in the general oyster law of the State of Mary-
land, shall be permitted to use such license to take or catch oysters in
the Chesapeake bay or in the Potomac river at any time that oysters
are allowed to be taken in said waters in conformity with the general
oyster law of the State, and they shall be subject to all the provisions
and penalties prescribed by the general oyster law of the State of
Maryland.*

Ibid. sec. 56. 1904. ch. 522, sec. 3.

57. The clerks of the circuit courts of St. Mary's, Charles and Cal-
vert counties are authorized to issue a license to any bona fide resident
of their respective counties to take or catch oysters, and shall charge
the same fees for the issuing of such license as is provided for in the
general oyster law of the State for tongers to pay for the privilege of
taking oysters during a full oyster season in any one year; and said

*This section was repealed in so far as It applied to Dorchester county and the
waters of the Choptank river in said county by the act of 1910, ch. 658 (p.
811). And as to Dorchester. Talbot and Wicomico counties and the Choptank and
Nanticoke rivers, see the act of 1910, ch. 522 (p. 820).