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Supplement to the Maryland Code, Containing the Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Session of 1870
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DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.
OYSTERS.

1870, c. 129 odds the following: '

1870, c. 129, s. 1.
May be taken
with scoop in
Honga river,
& c.

244. It shall and may be lawful for residents of
Dorchester county to catch or take oysters with a
scoop, in boats or canoes not exceeding five tons
burthen, according to custom house measurement, in
Honga river and that part of Fishing bay which lies
to the southward and westward of a straight line
drawn from the middle of the mouth of Tedious
creek to Clay Island light house, and in the waters
of the said county to the southward and westward
of said Fishing bay and Honga river upon obtaining

Proviso.

license therefor, as hereinafter directed; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall authorize the taking
or catching of oysters with scoops between the first
day of May and the first day of October, in each
year.

Ibid. c. 2.
License, how
obtained.

245. Any resident of said county, owning or having
in his possession any canoe or other boat not exceed-
ing five tons burthen, according to custom house meas-
urement, and desiring to use the said boat or canoe in
taking or catching oysters, with scoops, in any of the
waters of said county, described in section one, shall
first obtain, by application to the clerk of the circuit
court for said county, a license therefor, and such license
shall have effect from the first day of June, in the year
in which it may have been obtained, to the first day of

Proviso.

June next succeeding; provided, that such license shall
not authorize the use of said canoe or boat in the taking
or catching of oysters in any creek, river, cove, inlet,
bay or sound other than in the hereinbefore mentioned
waters.

Ibid. s. 3.
What license to
state.

246. Each and every license to take or catch oysters
with scoops, shall state the name and residence of the
person to whom the same is to be granted, the num-
ber, together with the length to be obtained by top or
over-all measurement, of the canoe or other boat to be
licensed, the county in which the same is to be used,



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