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TITLE IX.

Oysters, Fish and Fisheries, Wild Fowl

and Game

ARTICLE 13. OYSTERS.

ARTICLE 14. FISH AND FISHERIES.

ARTICLE 15. WILD FOWL AND GAME.

ARTICLE XIII.

OYSTERS.

1 No steamer to be used in catching oysters, license for vessels 2 License issued by comptroller, Chesapeake bay and Eastern bay, certain places ex- cepted, time, transfer, oath, fee 3 Requirements of oath. 4 Fee, license to be shown B Punishment for violation 6. Warrant for arrest, to whom directed 7 Resistance of officers, punishment 8. Sheriff, etc, to arrest offenders 9 Recognizance to be taken by justice, com- mitment 10 To whom fines paid, accounting by clerk 11 Condemnation of boat, sale, notice, pro- ceeds of sale. 12 Catching oysters without consent of owner, felony, punishment 13 Time when oysters may be taken, punish- ment 14 Not to be taken on Sunday or at night, penalty 15. Numbers to be furnished by comptroller, where to be placed, to be worn at all times, violation, punishment 16 Application by resident of State for license to use canoe, etc, to take oysters with rakes, etc, time, proviso, exceptions as to various counties 17 What license shall state, rates, where oysters to be culled, to whom amounts received for tonging license to be paid

18 Oath by applicant, requirements, viola- tion, penalty 19 Blanks, accounts, one kind of license only to be issued to same boat. 20 Use of unlicensed boat, penalty. 21 Oyster fund, statement by comptroller 22 Privilege of riparian owner to plant, etc, location of planting ground, location by citizen of State, notice, priority, loca- tion to be marked, recording of loca- tion, location not to obstruct naviga- tion, natural bed or bar not to be lo- cated, trial of contested locations. 23 Exclusive right in certain creeks, etc, of owners 24 Appropriation for State Fishery Force 25 Purchase of guard boats, arms, etc 26 Districts. 27 Commander of force, term of office, fine 26 Removal of officers and subordinates 29 Powers of commissioners to repair vessels 30 From where officers selected 31 Vessels to be kept on duty, reports 32 Where deputy commanders to perform duty, reports 33 Oath, bond 34 Salaries of officers and men. 35 Rations 3G When paid, clerk, salary. 37 Proviso as to existing suits 38 Worcester county excepted. 39 Proviso

TERRAPINS

40. When diamond-back terrapins not to be taken 41. Of what size not to be taken 42 Terrapin eggs not to be destroyed.

43 Citizens of counties only to take 44 Fine for violation, to whom fine paid. 45 Possession deemed evidence 46 Constables to arrest

42 Terrapin eggs not to be destroyed. 46 Constables to arrest 1. No steamer shall be used in catching oysters in this State, and no other boat shall be used in catching oysters with scoop, dredge, or similar instrument, without first having been licensed as herein- after provided. 2. The comptroller of the treasury shall, upon application of any person who has been a resident of this State for twelve consecutive months next preceding such application, and to no other person, 10

1874, c 181 No steamer to be used in catching oysters License for vessels 18 Howard, 71 5 Md 11 Id s 2 License paid by comptroller