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use or transplanting or cultivating, but not for sale. Persons
violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor.

1900, ch. 380.

15. Any person who shall violate any provision of sections
7 and 14 of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of com-
petent jurisdiction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor
more than three hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court
or justice of the peace by which such person shall be tried, or
be imprisoned in the county or city jail or in the House of
Correction for not less than one month nor more than twelve
months, in the discretion of such judge or justice of the peace;
provided, however, that any owner, master or person in charge
of a canoe or boat used in taking or catching oysters with
rakes or tongs, who shall be convicted of having in his pop-
session on said canoe or boat oysters containing more than five
per cent, of unmerchantable oysters, as provided in section
8, shall be required to cull his cargo and dispose of the
culls as required in section 9 of this article, and shall be
fined a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty
dollars, in the discretion of the judge or justice of the peace
before whom such person shall be tried; one-half of every tine
imposed for any violation of this section shall be paid to the
informer, unless he be an officer of the State fishery force.

Dredging.

1900, ch. 380.

19. 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 his application, 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 instrument within the waters of the Chesapeake bay,
Potomac river and in Eastern bay, outside of a line drawn
from the southwest corner of First Kent Point to north end of
Poplar Island; provided, that nothing herein contained shall