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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

for twelve consecutive months next preceding such applica-

License.

tion, 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 Easton Bay

outside of a line drawn from the southwest corner of Kent

Point to Wade's Point; provided that nothing herein con-

tained shall authorize the taking or catching of oyster with

scoop, dredge or similar instrument, on any oyster bar

within one and one-half miles of Tolley's Point, Sandy

Point, Hackett's Point, Thomas' Point, Holland's Island

Bar and Three Sisters ; nor within one and one-half miles

of Hollands Point Bar nor of Swan's Point Bar, nor be-

tween Poplar Island and the mainland of Talbot County,
south of a line drawn from the north point of Poplar Island

to Low's Point on the mainland ; nor north of a line drawn

from the end of the south bar of Poplar Island to Paw-Paw

Cove on Tilghman's Island, nor within one-fourth of a mile

west of Poplar Island nor within one-half mile of Plum Point,

nor within the boundary lines of any county, unless herein

otherwise specified ; which license shall hold good for one

season only, and shall only authorize the catching of oysters

between the fifteenth day of October and the first day of

April, on which day the dredging season shall end and the

license expire ; but it shall be lawful for the owner of any

such licensed boat, whenever said owner shall sell and con-

vey, by bill of sale for a bona fide consideration, said boat

to any person who has been a resident of the State of Mary-

land, for at least one year, to transfer said license to said

vendee with said boat, which license, when transferred, shall

entitle said vender to the same privileges of catching or

taking oysters with said boat in the waters of this State,

that the original vendor or assignor had had before said

assignment; provided, said vendee and assignee shall appear

before the Comptroller of the Treasury and make oath before

him to all the facts, matters and things required of said

original vendor or assignor, before taking out such license ;

upon which said license, the said comptroller shall certify

in writing the fact of said vendee or assignee having taken

said oath, for which said certificate the said vendee or as-

signee shall pay to the said comptroller the sum of five

dollars for the use of the oyster fund. The provisions of

this section in relation to time of taking oysters, the time

of expiration of license, and to transfer of ownership shall

apply to all vessels licensed by any county in this State, to

take and catch oysters with scrape or scoop, and any law,

general or local, in conflict herewith shall be void and of no

effect ; provided, that the time specified in this section shall