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CHAP. 184.
Unlawful
to catch
oysters with
scoops, etc.
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Section 253. It shall be lawful for the citizens of Dorchester
county to catch oysters with scoops, scrapes, or dredges in
boats owned by said citizens, not exceeding seven tons gross
tonnage, according to the rules of custom-house measurement,
such measurements to be ascertained as hereinafter provided,
to take oysters in the following waters, namely : In Honga
river, Hooper straits, Holland straits, Tar bay and that part of
Fishing bay which lies to the southward and eastward of a
straight line drawn from Bishop's Head Point to the lower
end of Clay Island where the light house formerly stood in
Dorchester county, and adjoining the Wicomico line up to
Sandy Island, and in the waters of the Great Choptank river,
where it is now lawful to take oysters with scoops, scrapes or
dredges, but no boat licensed under sections 255 and 256 shall
catch oysters within two hundred yards of the shore; and the
County Commissioners shall furnish two suitable buoys, and
the captain of the police boat guarding these waters shall keep
said buoys anchored on said line from Bishop's Plead Point
to Clay Island Point where the light house formerly stood,
and the use of scrapes and similar instruments for the taking
or catching oysters north of this line are hereby prohibited ;
provided, that it shall be lawful for citizens of Dorchester
county to catch oysters with scoops, scrapes or dredges in the
aforesaid waters of said county in boats owned by said citizens
which were licensed for the oyster season ending March 15,
1900, whose custom-house measurement does not exceed ten
and fifty-two one-hundredth gross tons according to rules of
the custom-house measurements, such measurement to be
ascertained as is hereafter provided for boats of seven tons
gross tonnage.
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Unlawful
to use
dunnaged
boat.
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Section 254. It shall not be lawful for any dunnage boat,
canoe or vessel employed to catch oysters with scoops, scrapes
or dredges in the waters of Dorchester county, and all timbers
more than five and one-half inches in depth used in construc-
tion of any said boat to which her bottom is fastened, or any
and all other materials used to make the space between the
ceiling and the bottom planks over five and one-half inches,
and all ceiling over two inches thick, and any and all materials
used between such ceiling and deck decreasing custom-house
tonnage shall be considered dunnage, and the ad measurer to
be appointed by the Governor as hereinbefore in section 251
of this Article provided, shall examine and measure all boats
over six tons gross (custom-house measurement) or smaller
boats, if in their judgment they have reason to believe that -
such boats have been incorrectly measured prior to the granting
by the clerk of the Circuit Court for Dorchester county a
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