FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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hereby, added to article II of the Code of Public Local

New
sections.

Laws of Maryland, title "Anne Arundel County," sub-title

" Oysters," to be designated as section 188 A, and section 188

B, and to read as follows :.

188 A. Any resident of Anne Arundel County desiring to

use any canoe or other boat in catching, or taking oysters

License to

for sale, or for any other purpose, with rakes or tongs, in any

take

of the waters of said county, shall first obtain a license there-

oysters.

fore by application to the clerk of the Circuit Court for said

county, and such license shall have effect from the fifteenth

of September in the year of its issue to the twentieth day of

April inclusive next succeeding ; provided, however, that

such license shall not authorize the use of said canoe or boat

in taking or catching oysters on the natural bed or beds in

the waters of Severn River, nor in any creek, cove, arm or

inlet of Severn River in said county, above a line drawn in

a northeasterly direction from the wharf of the United States

Ship Lantee at the United States Naval Academy to the

north bank of said river immediately opposite said wharf ;

for the period of two years from the first day of September

1892, and provided further that all such licenses shall be

granted in the same manner and upon the same terms and

conditions as provided in article seventy-two of the Code of

Public General Laws of Maryland, title " Oysters," sub-title

"Tonging."

188 B. If any person shall use any canoe or boat not

licensed as required upon the same terms and conditions, as

provided in article seventy-two of the Code of Public General

Laws of Maryland, title "Oysters," sub-title "Tonging."

188 B. If any person shall use any canoe or boat not

licensed as required by the preceding section in taking or

Fine.

catching oysters with rakes or tongs in the waters of Anne

Arundel County or if any person having such license, shall

take or catch any oysters with rakes or tongs on the natural

beds or bars in the waters of Severn River or of any creek,

cove, arm or inlet thereof, above the said line drawn from

the Lantee's Wharf to the opposite bank of the Severn River

as provided in the preceding section, he shall, upon convic-

tion thereof before any justice of the peace of said county,

or in the Circuit Court for said county, be fined not less than

twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and in

case of refusing to pay said fine, and cost of prosecution, the

said party shall be confined in the Maryland House of Cor-

rection for three months ; and in all cases under this section

the accused shall have a right of appeal from the justice of

the peace to the Circuit Court for the said county, provided

Proviso.

that nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent per-