FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

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Governor under this act, shall make a report under oath to the
Governor on or about the first day of May in each and every
year, the number of men that have been shipped, and the
number of men discharged by him, the amount of fees
received, and the general condition of the men when shipped,
and their condition when discharged; provided, however, that
any captain may ship a crew in St. Mary's county without the
necessity of going before a shipping commissioner.

Annual
report.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 380.

AN ACT to repeal Article seventy-two of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Oysters," and all sections and sub-
sections thereunder, and to re enact said article with
amendments.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That article seventy-two of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Oysters," and all sections and sub-sections
thereunder, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments to read as follows :

Repeal.

1. Any resident of this State desiring to catch or take
oysters, with rakes or tongs, for sale, in any of the waters of
this State, shall first obtain by application to the clerk of the
Circuit Court for the county wherein he may reside, a license
therefor, and such license shall have effect from the first day of
September, in the year in which it may have been obtained, to
the twenty-fifth day of April, inclusive, next succeeding ;
provided, that such license shall not authorize the taking or
catching of oysters in any creek, cove, river, inlet, bay
sound, within the limits of any county other than that wherein
the license shall have been granted, and that the boundaries of
the counties bordering on navigable waters shall be strictly
construed so as not to permit the residents of either county to
take or catch oysters beyond the middle of the dividing
channel; provided, that nothing in this section shall be so con-
strued as to prevent the citizens of Queen Anne's and Kent

Tonging
licenses.