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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful
for citizens of Dorchester county to catch
oysters with scoops or dredges in boats owned

Citizens' boats
under 10 tons.

by said citizens, not exceeding ten tons bur-
then, according to rules of Custom House
measurement, in Honga rivef, Hooper's straits,
Holland straits, Tar bay and that part of Fish-
ing bay which lies to the southward and west-
ward of a straight line drawn from the middle
of the mouth of Tedius creek to Clay Island
Light-House, and in all the waters to the
southward and eastward of Clay Island, in Dor-
chester county, and adjoining the Wicomico
lines up to Sandy Island, and in the waters of
the Great Choptank river where it is now law-

Where law-
ful.

ful to take oysters with scrapes or dredges,
but no boat licensed under this act shall catch
oysters within two hundred yards of the shore,
and the County Commissioners of Dorchester
county shall furnish two suitable buoys, and
the captain of the police sloop guarding these
waters shall keep said buoys anchored on said
line from Tedius creek to Clay Island Light-
House.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall not
be lawful for any dunnaged boat, canoe or
vessel to be employed to catch oysters with
scoops or light dredges, in the waters of Dor-

Dunnaged
boat.

chester county, and all timbers more than an
average of five inches in depth used in the
construction of said boat to which her bottom
is fastened, or any and all other materials
used to make the average space between the
ceiling and bottom planks over five and one-
half inches, and all ceiling over two inches
thick, and any or all materials used between
ceiling and deck to decrease Custom House
tonnage, shall be considered dunnage, and the

Examine boats.

School Commissioners for said county shall,
in August of each year, appoint some compe-
tent citizen of said county to examine all boats
over seven tons, (Custom House measurement),
prior to the said Clerk of the Circuit Court
for said county granting such boats a license