962 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 515

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1933.

Approved April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 515.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
1 of Article 72 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland (1929 Supplement), title "Oysters, " sub-title
"Tonging, " relating to licenses.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 1 of Article 72 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Oysters, " sub-
title "Tonging, " be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

Section 1. Any resident of this State between the ages
of fourteen and sixty-five desiring to catch oysters with
rakes or tongs for sale in any of the waters of this State
shall first obtain by application to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for the county wherein he may reside or the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City, a sepa-
rate license for every person to be employed on such boat,
and such license shall have effect from the first day of
September, in the year which it may have been obtained,
to the fifteenth day of April, inclusive, next succeeding;
provided that any laws either local or public, now in effect
or which may become in effect curtailing the open season
provided above, such local or public general laws shall pre-
vail, except in Talbot County and in the waters of the
Choptank River used in common by the residents of Tal-
bot and Dorchester Counties. Such license shall not au-
thorize the taking or catching of oysters in any creek,
cove, river, inlet, bay or sound within the limits of any
county other than that wherein the license shall have been
granted, except that the residents of Baltimore City and
other residents of the State duly licensed shall be permitted
to tong for oysters in the waters of Chesapeake Bay and
Potomac River on such bars which are not specifically re-
served in this Article for the exclusive use of any county;
and that the boundaries of the counties on navigable waters
shall be strictly construed so as not to permit the residents