408 ARTICLE 72.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 15. 1912, sec. 13. 1904, sec. 12. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 11.
1900, ch. 380. 1927, ch. 467, sec. 15.

15. Any packer, commission man, boatman or other person who shall
conspire or agree with any other person to evade any of the provisions of
this Article, or who shall continue at or participate in such violation shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. It shall be unlawful for any captain or other
person in charge of a vessel to discharge his oysters, or for any packing
house or any other person to receive oysters between the hours of one hour
after sunset and one hour before sunrise. Any violation of this Section
shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred
dollars and not more than five hundred dollars for each offense on convic-
tion before a court of competent jurisdiction; one-half of said fine to go to
the informer and the other one-half to the comptroller to be placed to the
credit of the oyster fund, unless the informer be an officer of the state fish-
ery force. And the general inspectors and measurers or special inspectors
shall be on duty continuously during the working or delivery hours, viz.:
from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. ¹

Time for Taking Oysters.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 18. 1912, sec. 16. 1904, sec. 15. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 14.
1900, ch. 380. 1927, ch. 463, sec. 18.

18. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take or catch
oysters or have oysters in his or their possession between the fifteenth day
of April and the first day of September in each and every year; provided,
that oysters caught before the fifteenth day of April may be disposed of at
any time before the twentieth day of April; nor shall it be construed to
prevent any person from taking oysters at any time from his private beds
within the State for private use or transplanting or cultivating but not for
sale.

Dredging.

1927, ch. 475.

22A. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or employ in catching
or taking oysters in the waters of the State or to have in his possession any
scoop, dredge, scrape or similar instrument having a tooth bar more than
60 inches in length measuring from the outside teeth. No "devil catcher, "
"devil diver" or similar device shall be had in possession or used on any
dredge boat or vessel by any captain or any other person for the purpose
of being attached to the dredge for steering same to the bottom.

Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined the sum of $50. 00
and in addition thereto such scoop, dredge, scrape or similar instrument
shall be confiscated. Upon second offense, in addition to the above penal-
ties, any license which may have been issued under the provisions of Sec-

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 467 of the acts of 1927 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to
extent of inconsistency.