ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 965

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 23 of Article 72 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Oysters, " sub-title
"Dredging, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Section 23. The comptroller of the treasury shall upon
application of any person who has been a resident of this
State for twelve consecutive months next preceding his ap-
plication, issue a license to such resident, and to no other
person, to employ such boat in taking or catching oysters
with scoop, dredge or similar instrument within the waters
of the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River and in Eastern Bay,
outside of a line drawn from the southwest corner of First
Kent Point to north end of Poplar Island; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall authorize the taking or
catching of oysters with scoop, dredge or similar instru-
ment on any oyster bar within one and one-half miles of
Tolley's Point, Sandy Point, Hackett's Point, Thomas'
Point, Holland's Island bar and Three Sisters, nor within
one and one-half miles of Holland's Point bar, nor of
Swan's Point bar, nor between Poplar Island and the main-
land of Talbot County, south of a line drawn from the
north point of Poplar Island to Low's Point on the main-
land, nor north of a line drawn from the end of the south
bar of Poplar Island to Pawpaw cove, on Tilghman Island,
nor within one-quarter of a mile west of Poplar Island, nor
within one-half of a mile of Plum Point, nor within the
boundary lines of any county, unless herein otherwise speci-
fied, which license shall hold good for one season only and
shall only authorize the catching of oysters between the
first day of November and the fifteenth day of March on
which day the dredging season shall end; provided, how-
ever, it shall be lawful for the owner of any such
licensed boat whenever said owner shall sell and convey by
bill of sale for a bona fide consideration such boat to any
person who has been a resident of the State of Maryland
for at least one year to transfer said license to said pur-
chaser with said boat, which license when transferred shall
entitle said purchaser to the same privileges of catching
and taking oysters with said boat in the waters of this
State that the original owner had before such assignment;
provided, said seller and buyer appear before the comp-
troller of the treasury and make oath before him to all
facts, matters and things required of said original owner
of such boat before taking out such license, upon which
said license said comptroller shall certify in writing that