2158 WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 24.

by means of bushes, stakes or buoys, the said waters from which
said oysters were taken or removed, and another person owned
the oysters taken or removed therefrom, shall afford no defence
to the accused.

1884, ch 304.

178. If any person other than the owner or his employee shall
be found working upon or among oysters laid down or planted in
the waters of the said Synepuxent bay or its tributaries, in said
county, staked off and kept plainly marked by means of bushes,
stakes or buoys, or in the waters so staked off as provided for by
section 175, and shall at the same time have in his possession
oysters, the presumption shall be that said oysters were taken or
removed by said person from the said waters of the said Syne-
puxent bay or its tributaries, staked off as aforesaid, where said
person was found working, and the burden of proof shall rest
upon such person to show that oysters found in his possession as
aforesaid were not taken or removed from the said waters of the
said Synepuxent bay or its tributaries, staked off as aforesaid,
where such person was found working.

1876, ch. 277.

179. No person other than actual residents of the State shall
catch clams or terrapins, or haul for or catch fish with any seine
of any description, in the waters of Synepuxent bay or its tribu-
taries within the limits of said county; and all persons violating
any of the provisions of this section, upon indictment and con-
viction thereof, shall forfeit the boats and all seines and other
instruments used in said violation, be fined not less than ten
dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, for each offence, with costs,
and be imprisoned until the same are paid; provided, that said
imprisonment shall in no case continue more than thirty days.

1878, ch. 64.

180. It shall not be lawful for any person to haul or fish in
any of the waters of Synepuxent bay or its tributaries, comprised
within the limits of Worcester county, with any seine containing
meshes less than one and a half inches square, unless said seine
shall be less than one hundred fathoms in length.