2750 ARTICLE 72

1931, ch. 297, sec. 161C.

167. Any person catching or receiving oysters or cultch from said
area without permission from the Conservation Commission or the director
of the laboratory, or any one disturbing or interfering with the markers,
buoys or other monuments erected on said area, or with any baskets and
other equipment set out in the water for experimental purposes, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to the penalty prescribed in Sec-
tion 159.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 162. 1912, sec. 136. 1914, ch. 753.

168. The Commander of the State Fishery Force shall assign one or
more boats of the force to guard areas reserved under the provisions of
this sub-title, and to supervise the taking of oysters therefrom. The said
boat or boats shall remain on guard throughout each oyster season in which
the reservation of such areas continues; and when such areas are reopened
for public use, it shall be the duty of the Deputy Commander of the said
boat or boats to prevent oysters caught upon such areas from being removed
contrary to the provisions of this sub-title, and to arrest all violators of such
provisions.

¹ An. Code, 1924, sec. 163. 1912, sec. 137. 1914, ch. 753.

169. It shall be the duty of the Commander of the State Fishery
Force to report in detail to the General Assembly of Maryland concern-
ing the progress of the work under this sub-title for replenishing the nat-
ural beds, bars and rocks, such report to be printed and submitted im-
mediately prior to the convening of said Assembly in each of the years
1916 and 1918, to the end that the system of replenishing natural beds,
bars and rocks may, if successful, be extended to other localities of this
State.

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 297 of Acts of 1931 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.