ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 518.

AN ACT to repeal chapter one hundred and ninety-

eight of the acts passed at the January session,

eighteen hundred and eighty, being an act to repeal

article seventy-one of the Code of Public General

Laws, titled " Oysters," and to re-enact the same

with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That chapter one hundred and ninety-

eight of the acts passed at the January session, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty, be and the same is hereby

Repealed and
enacted in lieu.

repealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof, to

be article seventy-one of the Code of Public General

Laws, title " Oysters."

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That no steamer shall be

used or employed in catching or taking oysters in the

waters of this state with scoop, dredge or similar in-

Boat mutst ob-

strument; and no other boat shall be used in. catch-

tain license.

ing oysters with scoop, dredge or similar instrument,

or carrying oysters, without first having been licensed

as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the comptroller of

the treasury shall, upon application of any person who

has been a resident of this state for twelve consecu-

License to resi-

tive months next preceding such application, and to

dent.

no other person, issue a license to such resident to

employ such boat in catching or taking oysters with

scoop, dredge or similar instrument, within the waters

of Chesapeake bay, Potomac river and in Eastern

bay, outside of a line drawn from the southwest cor-

ner of second Kent point to Wades point; provided
that nothing herein contained shall authorize the

Proviso.

catching or taking of oysters with scoop, dredge or

similar instrument, on any oyster bar within one and

a half miles of Talley's point, Sandy point, Hackett's

point, Thomas' point, Holland Island Bar, Three Sis-

ters, Swan Point Bar, Poplar Island, one quarter of a

mile west of and between the island and the main

land; nor within a half mile of Plum point, or within

the boundary lines of any county, unless herein other-

wise specified, and to carry, buy and sell oysters in

said vessel, which license shall hold good for one