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ART. 721 TONGING. 97
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63. How oysters shall be measured;
dimensions of tub; penalty
Packing Oysters.
66. Packer's license— Cost of said
license; duty of licensee;
sworn statements to clerk of
court issuing license
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67 Penalty for packing or canning
without license, parties pay-
ing $800 license maybe excused
from sworn statement, saving
as to past offences.
Past Offenses
63 Sections not to affect past
offenses.
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Tonging.
1900, ch. 380.
1. Any resident of this State desiring to catch oysters with
rakes or tongs for sale in any of the waters of this State shall
first obtain by application to the clerk of the circuit court for
the county wherein he may reside a separate license for every
person to be employed on such boat, and such license shall
have effect from the first day of September in the year which
it may have been obtained to the twenty-fifth day of April,
inclusive, next succeeding; provided, that such license shall
not authorize the taking or catching of oysters in any creek,
cove, river, inlet, bay or sound within the limit of any county
other than that wherein the license shall have been granted;
and that the boundaries of the counties or navigable waters
shall be strictly construed so as not to permit the residents of
either county to take or catch oysters beyond the middle of
the dividing channel; provided, that nothing in this section
shall be so construed as to prevent the citizens of Queen
Anne's and Kent counties from using the waters of Chester
river in common, or the citizens of Dorchester and Wicomico
counties from using the waters of Nanticoke river in common,
or the citizens of Queen Anne's and Talbot counties from
using the waters of the Wye river and the mouth thereof in
common, or the citizens of Dorchester and Talbot counties
from using the waters of the Choptank river in common;
provided, however, that the county commissioners shall be
authorized to give special permission to any woman who has
no visible means of support to take and catch oysters without
license, and provided also that boys under fifteen years of age
shall not be required to license.
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