ART. 71.] OYSTERS.

custom house tonnage, not less than five nor more
than twenty dollars; and if over custom house ton-
nage, not less than fifty dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars ; one-half of said fine to be paid to
the informer and the residue into the treasury of the
state.

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14. Any person resisting any officer or other per-
son authorized to make arrest and seizure under this
article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
indictment and conviction thereof, in any circuit court

Ibid. s. 16.
Resisting
arrest.

having jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than fifty
dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or be im-
prisoned in the jail of the county wherein the case is
tried not less than one month nor more than one
year.

Penalty.

15. It shall be unlawful for any owner, master,
employee or other person, to use or employ any boat
or vessel licensed under this article, to take or catch
oysters with scoops, scrapes, drag or dredge, or any
similar instrument, in taking or catching oysters in
any river, creek, cove, inlet, bay or sound, within the
limits of any county or lying between two or more
counties of this state, or on any oyster-bed, bar or
rock, within one and a half miles/ of Talley's Point,
Sandy Point, Hackett's Point, Thomas' Point, the
Three Sisters, Holland's Point Bar or on or about
Plum Point and Parker's creek, on the western side
of Chesapeake bay, and Swan Point on the eastern
side of said bay and Eastern bay, inside of a line
drawn from the south-west extremity of Kent Point
to north-east extremity of Poplar Island; and any
owner, master, employee or other person so offending,
shall, upon conviction thereof before any justice of
the peace or any judge of any circuit court for any

Ibid. s. 16.
Where unlaw-
ful to take oys-
ters.

county, be subject to the same fines and penalties,
and the boat or vessel so used or employed be liable
to seizure and forfeiture, as provided in section six
of this article; but neither this section, nor any in
this article shall be construed as a repeal of sections
ninety-four to one hundred and one, inclusive of arti-
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Penalty.