ART. 71.] OYSTERS.

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obtaining license to exhibit the same whenever called
upon to do so by any officer of the state of Maryland,
or other person authorized to demand the same.

License to be
exhibited

5. Any person who shall violate any of the provi-
sions of the preceding sections shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by any
judge of a circuit court or justice of the peace, before
whom such case may be tried, shall be fined not less
than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or for-
feit the boat or vessel in possession of the party so
offending, together with the papers, furniture and tackle
on board of said boat or vessel at the time of her seizure,
in the discretion of such judge or justice of the peace;
but nothing in this article shall be construed to pro-
hibit masters or owners of boats or vessels from other
states from buying or purchasing oysters within this
state from any person or persons authorized by law to
sell the same.

Ibid s 6
Penalty.
Fine and for-
feiture

6. Any resident of this state owning or having in
his possession any canoe or other boat under custom
house tonnage, and desiring to use the said canoe or
boat in taking or catching oysters for sale, with rakes
or tongs, in any of the waters of this state, shall first
obtain, by application to the clerk of the circuit court
for the county wherein he may desire or intend to use
the said canoe or boat in taking or catching oysters for
sale, with rakes or tongs, a license therefor, and such

Ibid s. 7.
License to
catch oysters
with rakes or
tongs.

license shall have effect from the first day of June in
the year in which it may have been obtained, to the

Duration of
license.

first day of June next succeeding ; provided, that such
license shall not authorize the use of said canoe or boat
in taking or catching oysters in any creek, river, cove,
inlet, bay or sound, within the limits of any county,
other than that wherein the license shall have been
granted, and that the boundaries of the counties bor-
dering upon navigable waters shall be strictly con-
strued, so as not to permit the residents of either
county to take or catch oysters beyond the middle of
the dividing channel; nor authorize the taking or
catching of oysters in the Patuxent river, between the

Proviso.