ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIBE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 333.

AN ACT to repeal section one, of the acts of General Assembly

of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter three hundred

and fifty-nine, as embodied in the Code of Public Local Laws,

title " Queen Anne's county," sub-title " Oysters," section two

hundred and twelve, and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments, and to extend the provisions thereof, when so amended,

to Talbot county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,

That section one, of the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-two,

chapter three hundred and fifty-nine, of the General Assembly of

Repeal

Maryland, as embraced in the Code of Public Local Laws, title

''Queen Anne's county," sub-title " Oysters," two hundred and

twelve, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with

amendments, so as to read as follows :

212. No person shall engage in the taking or catching of oys-

ters with rakes or tongs in the waters of Queen Anne's county

and Kent county, for the purpose of sale, or use any canoe or

other boat in said waters in the taking or catching of oysters with

rakes or tongs for sale, nor shall any person serve or be employed

on any such boat in the taking, catchirg or culling of oysters in

said waters for sale, unless such person shall have first obtained

from the clerk of the circuit court for the county where he shall

License.

reside a personal business license authorizing him so to do, for

Avhich he shall pay to said clerk a license fee of four dollars, and

said license shall have effect from the first day of September to

the twenty-fifth day of April, of each and every year, subject to

the general law as to the time when oysters shall be taken or

caught; the waters of Chester river shall be used in common be-

tween the residents of Queen Anne's and Kent counties, in the

taking and catching of oysters, and no person other than a bona

fide resident of Kent or Queen Anne's counties, and who shall

have been such for twelve months preceding his application for

license, shall be entitled to catch or cull oysters in the waters of

Chester river, and no person who is not a bona fide resident of

Queen Anne's county, and who has been such for twelve mouths

preceding his application for license, shall be entitled to take,

catch or cull oysters in any other of the waters of Queen Anne's

county; provided, that such license shall not authorize the use of

said boat or canoe in taking catching of oysters in any creek,

river, cove, inlet, bay or sound, within the limits of any other

Limits.

county than as hereinbefore specified; and that the boundaries of

the counties bordering on navigable water shall be thereby con-

strued so as not to permit the residents of either of these counties

to take or catch oysters beyond the channel of the creeks or rivers

lying between them and other contiguous counties; and, provided