926 ARTICLE 72.

returned to the waters under the supervision of the Deputy Commander or
other officer making the arrest, and the boat or vessel shall be held for the
security of payment of said fine.

If any boat or vessel shall be seen sailing on such reserved areas in the
same manner in which they sail to take or catch oysters with scoop, scrape,
drag or dredge or similar instrument, the said boat shall be pursued by an
officer authorized by this Section to make arrest and if said boat or vessel
apprehended by said officer shall be found to have on board any wet oysters
or dredges or dredge lines or wet deck indicating the taking of oysters at
said time and properly equipped for taking or catching oysters in scoop,
scrape, drag or dredge or similar instrument such fact shall be deemed
prima facie evidence that said boat or vessel has been used in violation of
the provisions of this Section and it shall be the duty of the officer to arrest
the person in command of said boat or vessel together with all her equip-
ment and bring the same before a Judge or Justice of the Peace of the
County having jurisdiction, or if in the Chesapeake Bay in the County
most accessible or convenient.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 158. 1912, sec. 134. 1914, ch. 753. 1917, ch. 12, sec. 134.

1927, ch. 123, sec. 158.

158. From and after the date designated by the Commission for re-
opening of such reserved areas, until the date designated by it for clos-
ing same, oysters shall be caught upon such reserved arears only by dredg-
ers, scrapers or tongers of the State holding licenses for the current season,
in the manner now prescribed by law, and subject also to the following
special conditions and restrictions, viz:

(1) Oysters caught upon reserved areas shall be subject to a special
charge or tax to be fixed by the Commission and to be announced in the
advertisement re-opening such area or areas, said charge or tax to be not
less than ten cents per bushel, nor more than twenty cents per bushel,
which tax shall be collected by the buyers at the place where said oysters,
are to be no further shipped in bulk in vessels, and shall be paid weekly
to the Comptroller or his agent by the buyers, such tax to be in addition
to any other charge on oysters now or hereinafter imposed by law, and pay-
ment thereof to be enforced in the same manner as the inspection tax pro-
vided for by Section 81 of said Article 72. The Deputy Commander shall
sign in triplicate certificates serially numbered and substantially in the
form following:

.................. 19....

I hereby certify that the cargo of oysters loaded by Captain..........

of the vessel.................... was taken from reserved areas and is.

subject to a tax of............ cents per bushel, which is to be paid to

the Comptroller or his agent.

Deputy Commander.

The copies of each certificate so issued shall be given the captain of the
vessel in which oysters are to be transported from such reserved areas, one