WICOMICO COUNTY. 5045

alphabetical list of the tax payers in said Town, together with the respec-
tive sums to be collected from such persons. The Bailiff shall forthwith
make diligent efforts to collect the said taxes, and unless the same, together
with accrued interest, shall be paid to the Bailiff on or before March first
next succeeding the date of such levy, then the Bailiff shall seize goods,
chattels, lands and tenements of any person refusing or neglecting to pay
the same, and after giving at least twenty days' notice of the time and
place of sale by written or printed hand-bills set up in five public places in
said Town, and printed at least three times in some newspaper published
in said Wicomico County, he shall sell the property so seized, at public
auction to the highest bidder, or so much thereof as may be necessary to
pay the said taxes, accrued interest and all costs of such advertisement and
sale, including a fee of Three Dollars ($3.00) to such Bailiff; and unless
said taxes, accrued interest and all such costs shall be paid to the said
Bailiff within thirty days after the date of such sale, the Bailiff shall
thereafter transfer and convey said seized property to any purchaser
thereof by good and sufficient title papers forever and in fee simple.

1927, ch. 268, sec. 18.

155. The said Commissioners shall not expend nor contract to expend
in any one year more money than the amount receivable by the Town
from taxes and other sources for that year.

OYSTERS.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 78. 1886, ch. 78.

156. It shall not be lawful for any person to employ any canoe, boat or
other vessel, in catching or taking oysters with scoop, scrape, drag or
dredge, or any similar instruments, within the waters of Wicomico county
or Nanticoke river; nor shall any person take or catch oysters within the
waters of said county or Nanticoke river, otherwise than with tongs, as
restricted and regulated by the provisions of article 72 of the code of pub-
lic general laws, title "Oysters."

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 79. 1886, ch. 78.

157. For the protection of young oysters in the waters of Wicomico
county and Nanticoke river, it shall not be lawful for any person to take
or catch oysters above a straight line drawn from Sandy island on the
west side of Nanticoke river, to Roaring point on the east side of said
river, between the fifteenth day of April and the first day of October.

P. L. L, 1888, Art. 23, sec. 80. 1886, ch. 78.

158. Any person violating the provisions of either of the two preceding
sections shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more
than two hundred dollars, or forfeit the canoe, boat or vessel in his

*See Art. 72 of Annotated Code for general law which may have superseded some
of the provisions of this subtitle.