912 ARTICLE 72.

or transplanting oysters on private beds or taking oysters from private beds
for private use during the closed season, but not for sale. ¹

1933, ch. 516.

61A. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch or take oysters with
scoop, scrape or dredge in the waters of the Choptank River north and east
of a line drawn from the Sinclair dwelling, situate between Upper Bar
Neck Beacon and Lower Bar Neck Point on Tilghman's Island to Be-
noni's Lighthouse and thence to Chlora Point, Gland Neck, in Talbot
County, and in the waters of the Choptank River and its tributaries above
and east of a line drawn from Howell's Point in Talbot County to Horn
Point in Dorchester County.

Potomac.

62-70. Repealed by ch. 126 of the Acts of. 1927.

An Code, 1924, sec. 72. 1912, sec. 68B. 1912, ch. 4, sec. 2. 1927, ch. 476, sec. 72.

1931, ch. 298.

72. Closed Season for Catching Oysters. It shall not be lawful for
any citizen of either State to take oysters with tongs from the waters of the
Potomac River between the fifteenth day of April and the fifteenth day of
September of each year, except as hereinafter provided in Section 74; it
shall not be lawful for any person to have in possession any oysters taken
from the waters of the Potomac River between the twentieth day of April
and the fifteenth clay of September of each year. Every person found
guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not
less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense,
and the vessel, together with its equipment and cargo, used in violating
any such provisions shall be forfeited to the State.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 73. 1912, sec. 68C. 1912, ch. 4, sec. 3. 1927, ch. 476, sec. 73.

73. All oysters taken from any natural rocks, beds or shoals within the
Potomac River shall be culled on their natural rocks, beds or shoals as
taken, and oysters whose shells measure less than three inches in length,
measuring from hinge to mouth, whether attached to a marketable oyster
or not, and all shells shall be included in said culling and placed on 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
been culled according to the provisions of this Section for the purpose of
this Section shall be declared to be unmerchantable oysters; and when
oysters measuring less than three inches are adhering so closely to the shell
of a marketable oyster as to render removal impossible without destroying
the small oysters, then such oysters, including the marketable oyster or

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 463 of acts of 1927 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.

² Sec. 2 of ch. 298, acts of 1931 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.