ART. 72.] OYSTERS—DREDGING. 1035

instrument; and no other boat shall be used in catching oysters
with scoop, dredge or similar instrument, without first having;
been licensed as hereinafter provided.

1886, ch. 296, sec. 3.

2. The comptroller of the treasury shall, upon appllcation of
any person who has been a resident of this State for twelve con-
secutive months next preceding such apph'cation, issue a license to
such resident, and to no other person, to employ such boat in
taking or catching oysters with scoop, dredge or similar instru-
ment, within the waters of Chesapeake bay, Potomac river and
in Eastern bay, outside of a line drawn from the southwest corner
of Second Kent point to Wade's point; provided, that nothing
herein contained shall authorize the taking or catching of oysters
with scoop, dredge or similar instrument, on any oyster bar
within one and a half miles of Talley's point, Sandy point,
Hackett's point, Thomas's point, Holland's Island bar and Three
Sisters, nor within one and one-half miles of Holland's point bar;
nor of Swan's point bar; nor between Poplar island and the
mainland of Talbot county, south of a line drawn from the north
point of Poplar island to Louis's point, on the mainland; nor
north of a line drawn from the end of the south bar of Poplar
island to Paw Paw cove, on Tilghman's island; nor within one-
fourth of a mile west of Poplar island; nor within one-half of a
mile of Plum point; nor within the boundary lines of any
county, unless herein otherwise specified; which license shall
hold good for one season only, and shall only authorize the catch-
ing of oysters between the fifteenth day of October and the first
day of April, on which day the dredging season shall end and
the license expire; but it shall be lawful for the owner of any
such licensed boat, whenever said owner shall sell and convey by
bill of sale, for a bona fide consideration, said boat unto any
person who has been a resident of the State of Maryland for at
least one year, to transfer said license to said vendee, with said
boat, which license when transferred shall entitle said vendee to
the same privileges for catching or taking oysters, with said boat,
in the waters of this State, that the original vendor or assignor
had before said assignment; provided, said vendee and assignee
shall appear before the comptroller of the treasury, and make