ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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shall provide and have on the day of said election a ballot-box in

which only the ballots cast under the provisions of this act shall

be deposited by said judges of election; and after closing of said

Proceed-

polls, the said ballots shall be counted and returned as in cases

ings.

of other elections under the laws of this State; and it shall be the

duty of said county commissioners and sheriff of said county to

make all the necessary provisions to fully carry out the require-

ments of this act, so that said elections shall be fairly held on

the day aforesaid as elections have heretofore been held in said

county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That ballots for or against such

prohibition shall have printed on them the words "For prohibit-

ing the taking of oysters with scrapes or dredges," or "Against

prohibiting the taking of oysters with scrapes or dredges," and

Ballots.

the ballots so cast shall be carefully counted by the judges of

said election, and that said judges shall make a return of said

votes, and deliver said ballots to the clerk of the circuit court for

Somerset county, and said clerk shall within five days thereafter

make proclamation of the result of said election and cause the

same to be published in at least two newspapers printed in said

county for at least two successive weeks.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall be found by the said

returns of the judges of election and proclamation of said clerk

that a majority of said votes in said Crisfield, Lawson, Brinkley's,

Fairmount, St. Peter's, Dames Quarter, Tangier, Mount Vernon

To pro-

and Smith's Island districts have been cast in favor of prohibiting

hibit.

the taking of oysters' with scrapes or dredges, that then, and in

that event new sections shall be added to article twenty, of the

Code of Public Local Laws, title " Somerset County, " sub-title

"Oysters," (to take effect the first day of December, eighteen

hundred and ninety, ) to follow next after section one hundred

and ninety-six of said sub-title, and to be designated sub-sections

one 1, two 2, three 3, four 4, five 5, six 6, seven 7, eight 8, nine 9,

ten 10, eleven 11, twelve 12, and to read as follows :

SUB-SECTION 1-1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That it shall be unlawful for any person to employ any canoe,

Unlawful.

boat or vessel in catching or taking oysters with scoop, scrape,

drag, dredge or any similar instrument in any of the waters of

Somerset county.

SUB-SEC. 2-2. And de it enacted, That any person or persons

violating the provisions of section one of this act, shall on con-

viction thereof, be sentenced to be confined in the house of cor-

Penalty.

rection for a term of not less than six months nor more than two

years at the discretion of the justice of the peace or the court

trying the case; and the canoe, boat or vessel so unlawfully

employed shall be forfeited and sold.

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