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or catching oysters with any implements or device other than ordinary
rakes or tongs with wooden shafts, to be used entirely by hand, and
without any ropes or hoisting gear whatever. Any person violating the
provisions of this section shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in the
Public General Laws, Article 72, title "Oysters," Section 20, for taking
oysters with rakes or tongs without license.

1910, ch. 522 (p. 820).

434. Any resident of Dorchester County desiring to take or catch
oysters with rakes or tongs for sale in any of the waters of Dorchester
County, shall first obtain, by application to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Dorchester County a separate license for every person to be employed
on such boat; and that any resident of Dorchester or Talbot Counties
desiring to take or catch oysters with rakes or tongs for sale in the water
of the Choptank River within said counties shall first obtain, by applica-
tion the clerk of the circuit court of the county wherein he may reside,
a separate license for every person to be employd on such boat, and
such license shall have effect from the first day of October in the year in
which it has been obtained until the twenty-fifth day of April, inclusive,
next succeeding; except in the Choptank River in said counties wherein
it shall effect from the 15th day of September; provided, that nothing
in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent the citizens of Dorchester
and Talbot Counties obtaining an oyster license under this Act from using
the waters of the Choptank River in common, or the citizens of Dor-
chester and Wicomico Counties from using the waters of the Nanticoke
River in common.*

RAILROADS.

1910, ch. 555 (p. 817).

435. The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wilmington Railroad Com-
pany is hereby directed and reqiiired to place and maintain a flagman at
Washington Street crossing or station, near Cambridge, in Dorchester
County, where the public county road of said county called Washington
Street crosses the tracks of said railroad company at said place, said
flagman to be on duty between the hours of 6.50 o'clock A. M. and 8.30
P. M. on all days except Sundays, and from 2.30 o'clock P. M. to 9.30
o'clock P. M. on Sundays, to warn persons using said crossing of the
approach to trains upon said railroad.

Should said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing-ton Railroad Com-
pany violate any of the provisions of this section, it shall be liable to a
fine of ten dollars ($10.00) for each and every day it shall fail to comply
with the provisions of said section, said fine to be collected as other fines
are collected.

*Sec. 2, ch. 522. 1910, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.