ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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repealed, and said section second re-enacted to read as

follows :

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

circuit court for Dorchester and Talbot counties, re-

spectively, shall, upon the application of any person

who has been a resident of such counties for twelve

months next preceding such application, and to no

other person, issue a license to such resident to employ

Issue license to

any boat of the capacity of ten tons or under such

residents.

capacity, to be ascertained by custom house measure-

ment, 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 first day

of October in each year and the first day of April

next following; provided that nothing in this act shall

authorize the taking of oysters with scoop, scrape or

Prohibited.

dredge above a straight line drawn from the long

wharf at Cambridge, known as " Thomas" wharf, on

the Dorchester shore, to the Bawdle house, on the

Talbot shore, immediately opposite or in any tributary

of said river above or below said line from said Thomas

wharf, on said Dorchester shore, to said Bawdle house,

on said Talbot shore; and provided further, that the

applicant shall pay to said clerk, before issuing of

license, the sum of two dollars per ton, according to

Cost of license.

the capacity of the vessel to be licensed; provided,

that all boats measuring less than five tons shall pay

eight dollars for said license, which said license shall

be good for twelve months from the day of its issue,

and until such licenses is obtained it shall be unlawful

to use or employ any vessel in taking or catching

oysters as herein before described; provided, that the

waters of Talbot county lying between Black Walnut

point and a line drawn from Tilghman's point to the

southwest point of Parson's island, except the waters

between Poplar island and the main land lying within

Waters to be

a line drawn from a point of land lying on the north

reserved.

side of Ferry cove known as Law's point to the

northern extremity of Poplar island, on the north, to

a line from the northwest extremity of Tilghman's

island to the southern extremity of south bar of Poplar

island on the south, which are hereby reserved for

the use of tongmen, shall be opened to the citizens of

Talbot county licensed under this act between the first

day of October and the first day of April next follow-

ing; but it shall be unlawful to take oysters with