WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1597

land (1939 Edition), title "Oysters and Clams", sub-title
"Tonging", as said section was amended by Chapter 872
of the Acts of 1945, providing that Hickory Thicket bar
shall be used in common by the tongers of Kent and
Queen Anne's Counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 5 (i) of Article 72 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Oysters and Clams", sub-
title "Tonging", as said section was amended by Chapter
872 of the Acts of 1945, be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

5.

(i) (Privileges of a Tonging License—Locations.) Any
person granted a tonging license in the manner described
in the preceding sub-sections shall be entitled to take or
catch oysters with tongs and patent tongs during the
season for taking oysters as follows: In the waters of the
county wherein such license is granted; in the waters of
the Potomac River; and in the waters of the Chesapeake
Bay, except that all waters within one and one-half miles
of Sandy Point, Hackett's Point, Tolley's Point, Thomas'
Point, Three Sisters Bar and Holland's Point Bar shall
be considered within the limits of Anne Arundel County;
and the oyster bars of Entrance Lump, White Marsh,
Gum Springs, Hunting Field, Windmill Flats, Muddy
Drain, Swan Point and Lighthouse Lump shall be con-
sidered to lie within the limits of Kent County; and Hickory
Thicket bar shall be used in common by the tongers of Kent
and Queen Anne's Counties.

No licensed tonger shall take or catch oysters in the
waters of any county other than that in which the license
was issued, except, however, that duly licensed tongers
of Queen Anne's and Kent Counties may use the waters
of the Chester River in common; tongers of Dorchester and
Wicomico Counties may use the Nanticoke River in com-
mon; tongers of Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties may
use the south branch of the Wye River and the mouth
thereof in common; tongers of Dorchester and Talbot Coun-
ties, and the Fourth Election District of Caroline County,
may use the Choptank River in common, except as re-
stricted in the following sub-section.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 25. 1947.