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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 325.

AN ACT to repeal chapter two hundred and four-

teen of the act passed at January session, eighteen

hundred and seventy-four, relating to catching

oysters with scoops in Dorchester county, and to

re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the act passed at the January

Repealed and

session eighteen hundred and seventy-four, relating

re-enacted.

to catching oysters with scoops or light dredge in

the waters of Dorchester county, be and the same is

thereby repealed and re-enacted to read as follows :

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful

for citizens of Dorchester county to catch oys-

ters with scoop or light dredge in boats not exceed-

Where oys-
ters may be

ing ten tons burthen, according to rules of Custom
House measurement, in Honga river, Hooper's straits,

caught.

Par bay, and that part of Fishing bay which lies

to the southward and westward of a straight line

drawn from the middle of the mouth of Tedious

creek to Clay Island Light House, and in all the

waters to the southward and eastward of Clay island,

in Dorchester county, and adjoining the Wicomico

lines up to Sandy island ; provided that no boat or

boats licensed under the provisions of this act shall

work within two hundred yards of the shore ; and

the Board of County Commissioners for Dorchester

Place proper

county shall purchase two buoys of proper size and

buoys

have them properly anchored on said straight line

between Tedius creek and Clay Island Light House,

and the captain of the oyster sloop of the second

district shall place them in position.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the residents of

said county be allowed to catch oysters with scoop

or light dredge in the waters above named, by ob-

Must obtain

taining from the Clerk of the Circuit Court, for said

license

county, a license, which shall have effect from the

first of September to the first of the next ensuing

September of each year, and provided that said li-

cense shall not authorize the taking of oysters, as