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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

County be and they are hereby authorized and required to

Buoys.

have placed upon and keep on the several lines to which it

may be lawful to use scoops, scrapes, and dredges or any

similar instrument, to take or. catch oysters in the waters of

Annamessex, Monokin and Wicomico Rivers in Somerset

County, such buoys or other marks as may be necessary to

plainly designate said several lines, the said buoys or

marks to be placed on said several lines as now established

by article twenty of the Code of Public Local Laws, title

" Somerset County," sub-title " Oysters."

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said county com-

Levy.

missioners be and they are hereby authorized to levy upon

the assessable property of Somerset County such sum or

sums not exceeding oue hundred and fifty dollars as may

be necessary for properly marking said several lines.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said buoys or other marks

Unlawful
to remove

being once placed on said several lines it shall be unlawful

buoys.

for any person or persons to remove or deface the same or

any one of them, and any person or persons convicted of

removing or defacing, or of being concerned in removing

or defacing any one of said buoys or other marks so placed

to designate said lines, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and

fined by any justice of the peace of the State of Maryland

in and for Somerset County, or any judge of the Circuit

Court for Somerset Couuty, before whom the offender may

be brought, and tried, a sum not less than fifty nor more

than two hundred dollars and be committed to the county

jail for Somerset County until said fines and costs are paid.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall

Effective

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 445.

AN ACT to prohibit the payment of employees of certain!

corporations, operating in Garrett County otherwise than

in legal tender money of the United States.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That every corporation engaged in mining or

manufacturing or operating a railroad in Garrett County,

To pay in
legal

and employing ten or more hands, shall pay its employees

tender

the full amount of their wages in legal tender money of the

United States ; and that any contract by or on behalf of

any such corporation for the payment of the whole or any