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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 359.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments

chapter four hundred and thirty-seven of the Acts

of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-

four, and chapter four hundred and five of the

acts passed at January session, eighteen hundred

and seventy-six, relating to the catching of oys-

ters with scoop, scrape or dredge, in the waters of

Dorchester and Talbot counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That chapter four hundred and thirty-

seven of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-

land, passed, at January session, eighteen hundred
and seventy-four, and chapter four hundred and five

Repealed and

of the acts passed at January session, eighteen hun-

re-enacted.

dred and seventy-six, relating to the catching of oys-

ters with scoop, scrape or dredge, in the waters of

Dorchester and Talbot counties, be and the same

are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-

ments, as follows :

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Clerk of the

Circuit Court of Talbot or Dorchester county shall,

upon the application of any person who has been a

resident of such county for twelve months next pre-

ceding such application, and to no other person,

Issue license.

issue a license to such resident to employ any boat

of a capacity of ten tons or under, such capacity to

be ascertained by Custom House measurement, in

taking or catching oysters with dredge, scoop or

scrape, in the waters of the Choptank river, in said

counties, for sale to any person, between the fifteenth

day of September, in each year, and the first day of

June next following ; provided that nothing in this
act shall authorize the taking of oysters with dredge,

scoop or scrape, above a straight line drawn from

Oyster Shell point, on the Dorchester shore, to the

Talbot shore, immediately opposite, or in any tribu-

taries of said river above or below said Oyster Shell

point; and provided, further, that the applicant