456 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

wooden shafts, to be used entirely by hand, and without any ropes
or hoisting gear whatever. Any person or persons violating any
one of the provisions of this section shall be liable to the penalties
prescribed in the preceding section for taking oysters with rakes
or tongs without license; and the waters within one and a-half
miles of Sandy Point, Hackett's Point, Tolley's Point, Thomas'
Point, Holland's Island Bar and Three Sisters and Holland's
Point Bar, shall be held and considered to be within the limits of
Anne Arundel county for the purpose of this section and article.
This section shall not affect any violation of the pre-existing law,
but every offense which has been wholly or partly committed
against said law shall be dealt with, inquired into, tried, deter-
mined and punished, and any penalty in respect to any such
offense shall be imposed or inflicted, and any fine in respect
thereto shall be imposed, enforced and recovered as fully as if
this section had not been enacted.

Culling.

1894, ch. 380.

7. All oysters taken from any of the waters of this State,
either with scoops, dredges or any similar instrument or tongs
or rakes, shall be culled upon their natural bed or bar as taken,
and all shells shall be returned to the bed or bar from which they
were taken, and all oysters whose shells measure less than two and
one-half inches in length, measuring from hinge to mouth, shall
be included in said culling and replaced upon said bed or bar as
taken.

Ibid.

8. Any captain or other person in charge of any vessel, who
shall have oysters in his possession which contain more than five
per cent, of shells and small oysters, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor; and in ascertaining such percentage, the officer of the
oyster police force is hereby authorized and directed to select such
an amount of oysters contained in the pile, hold, bin or other
place, as he may think necessary, and to cull or have culled the
amount so selected.

Ibid.

9. It shall be the duty of any packer, commission man or other
person, who shall purchase any cargo or part of a cargo of oysters,