1056 OYSTERS—CATCHING IN POTOMAC. [ART. 72.

forfeited and sold; one-half of the proceeds to go to the State,
where convicted, and the other half to the informer.

1884, ch. 76, sec. 2.

46. It shall not be lawful for any citizen of Maryland or
Virginia to take or catch oysters with a scoop, scrape, dredge, or
any such instrument, in the waters of the Potomac, between the
first day of April and the first day of November of each year; it
shall not be lawful for any citizen of either State to take oysters,
with tongs from the waters of the Potomac river between April
the fifteenth and September the first of each year; it shall not be
lawful for any person to have in possession any oysters in the
waters of the Potomac river between the fifteenth day of April
and the first day of September of each year; every person found
guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section shall be
fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars for each offence; and the vessel by which
oysters are illegally taken, or which receives oysters so illegally
taken, or which has oysters on board (within the limits of said
river) within the time specified, shall be held as security for the
payment of the fine hereinbefore mentioned, and be subject also
to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred
and fifty dollars; and in the event of such fines not being paid
within a period of twenty days, then such vessel shall be forfeited
and sold; the surplus after payment of fines and costs, to be paid
to the owner of the boat; one-half of fines to go to the informer,
and the other half to the State.

Ibid. sec. 3.

47. It shall be lawful for citizens of the States of Maryland
and Virginia to take oysters in the Potomac river after complying
with the requirements of the law of the State of which they are
citizens, for the taking of oysters from the waters of such State;
and any citizen of either State who takes oysters in the Potomac
without having complied with the requirements of the law of
his State as to the taking of oysters in its own waters, shall be
considered guilty of violating the laws of the State of which he
is a citizen, and shall be prosecuted according to such laws.