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OYSTERS. [ART. 71.

making into said land or lands, shall become one hun-
dred yards in width, for preserving, depositing, bed-
ding or sowing oysters, or other shell fish, although
such creek, cove or inlet may not be included in the
lines of any patent.

Ibid, s 30.
Taking planted
oysters.

29. If any person shall take with a drag, dredge,
scoop, scrape, rakes or tongs, or any instrument what-
ever, any oysters or other shell fish imbedded, planted
or sown, in accordance with the provisions of sections
twenty-eight [s. 27] and twenty-nine [s. 28] of this
article, or any oysters growing on any grounds appro-
priated according to the provisions of said sections, or
shall carry, or attempt to carry, the same away, [he]
shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and be liable to
indictment, and on conviction thereof in any court in

Penalty.

this state, having criminal jurisdiction, shall be sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for a term not exceeding
five years, and not less than one year.

Ibid. s. 31.
State's portion
of fines.

30. The state's portion of all fines and forfeitures
accruing under this article, shall be paid by the sheriff
or other officer collecting the same, in ten days, to the
clerk of the circuit court of the county or the clerk of
the court of common pleas of the city of Baltimore,
where such fine or forfeiture may accrue; and such
clerk shall account for the same to the comptroller of
the treasury in his quarterly returns.

Ibid. s. 32.
Duty of comp-
troller.

31. The comptroller of the treasury is hereby re-
quired to have painted in black figures, on white
canvass, two sets of the numbers corresponding to
the licenses to take oysters with scoops, scrapes, drag,
dredge, or any similar instrument, each figure of which
shall be twenty-two inches in heighth, and of propor-
tionate width, and he shall give to each person taking
out such license, two numbers thereof, one of which

Number on
mainsail and
on jib.

the captain of the vessel shall sew upon the starboard
side, and in the middle of that part of his mainsail
which is above the close reef, and the other number
upon the port side, and in the middle of that part of
the jib, which is above the bonnet and reef, these num-
bers shall be sewed on the side of the sails in an up-