1582 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

license shall permit such licensee to take or catch oysters in the Chesa-
peake bay or in the Potomac river at any time that oysters are allowed
to be taken in said Chesapeake bay and Potomac river under the pro-
visions of the general oyster law of the State; and the holder of such
license shall be permitted to use the same in the Patuxent river and
its tributaries in St. Mary's, Calvert and Charles counties, and in the
tributaries of the Potomac river of Charles and St. Mary's counties,
from the first day of October until the first day of April in each year.*

1904, art. 72, sec. 57. 1904. ch. 522, sec. 4.

58. Any person holding a license on April 8, 1904, to take or catch
oysters in the Patuxent river and its tributaries, or the tributaries of
the Potomac river in St. Mary's, Charles or Calvert counties, shall be
permitted to use such license for the full term for which they were
granted.*

Ibid. sec. 58. 1904, ch. 522, sec. 5.

59. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of sec-
tions 55 to 58 shall be subject to the same penalties and dealt with in
the same manner as provided for in the general oyster law of the State
for taking or catching oysters during the closed season or without
license.*

Potomac.

Ibid. sec. 59. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 51.

60. It shall not be lawful for any person to take or catch oysters
in any manner whatever in the waters of the Potomac river unless he
be a citizen of Maryland or Virginia and shall have been a resident of
the State of which he is a citizen for twelve months immediately pre-
ceding. Any one violating this section shall be subject to a fine of five
hundred dollars; any vessel in which oysters are taken contrary to this
section shall be forfeited and sold, one-half of the proceeds to go to the
State where convicted and the other half to the informer.

1906, ch. 468.

61. All oysters taken from any natural rocks, beds or shoals in the
waters of the Potomac river shall be culled on their natural rocks, beds
or shoals as taken, and oysters whose shells measure less than two and
one-half inches in length, measuring from hinge to month, and all
shells shall be included in said culling and replaced upon said rocks,
beds or shoals, provided that oysters once passed from the culler less
than the prohibited size, and all shells shall be considered as not having

*This section was repealed in so far as it applied to Dorchester county and the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. 822).