HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That if any canoe
or canoes, boat or boats, vessel or vessels, shall
be used by any person or persons within the
limits of Wicomico county, in the same man-
ner or way in which they are used to take
oysters with scoop, scrape, dredge or drag, or
similar instrument, it shall be the duty of
any officer created by this act to pursue such
canoe or canoes, boat or boats, vessel or ves-
sels, and if the said canoe or canoes, boat or
boats, vessel or vessels, shall be found to have

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on board any scrapes, cranks, dredges, or any
similar instruments, or any other equipments
necessary to take oysters with scoop, scrape,
dredge or similar instrument, it shall be the
duty of said officer to seize the said canoe or
canoes, boat or boats, vessel or vessels, and to
arrest the person or persons found on board,
and bring them before some Justice of the
Peace in said county, to be dealt with accord-
ing to the provisions of this act; and the nec-
essary appurtenances being on board of said
canoe or canoes, boat or boats, vessel or ves-

Any officer
to pursue.

sels, to take oysters with scoop, drag, dredge
or similar instrument, shall be sufficient evi-
dence that the said canoe or canoes, boat or
boats, vessel or vessels have been used in vio-
lating the provisions of this act.

Evidence.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That all moneys
received from tonging license shall be paid by
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Wicomico
county to the Board of County School Com-
missioners, to be placed to the credit of the
school fund in said county.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That all acts and

To credit of
School Fund.

parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and
the same are hereby repealed, and that this
act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved March 25, 1886.

Repealed.