FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

acquire and hold such property, to be applied by it to the
objects of its incorporation, not to exceed the sum of twenty
thousand dollars.

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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That J. Roger McSherry,
Charles T. Holloway, Edward Israel, Edward S. Eichelberger,
Edward Koontz, Benjamin H. Blackston, Frank Spates,
Thomas E. McCardell, E. M. Mobley, G. A. Einwachter, O.
D. Gilbert, William M. Crimmins and Hiram R. Heck, shall
be the officers and managers of said corporation until the
second Thursday in June, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
and shall serve as such until their successors are elected.

Board of
directors.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 8th, 1894.

CHAPTER 63.

AN ACT supplementary to the Act of Assembly of Maryland
and entitled "An Act to regulate the taking of oysters in
the Potomac River," which is contained in Chapter seventy
six of the Acts of Assembly of eighteen eighty-four.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all oysters taken from the waters of the
Potomac river, either with scoops, scrapes, dredges or similar
instruments, or with rakes or tongs, shall be culled upon the
natural beds or bars from which the same shall be taken, as
soon as taken; and all oysters having shells of a less size than
two and one-half inches in length, measured from hinge to
month, together with all empty shells, shall be left upon the
natural beds or bars; provided that, when small oysters are
adhering so closely to the shell of the marketable oyster as to
render its removal impossible without destroying the small
oyster, then it shall not be necessary to remove it.

Oysters to be
culled upon
their nat-
ural beds.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That where any cargo or
portion of cargo of oysters taken from the waters of the
Potomac river, in any manner, shall contain more than five
per cent, of empty shells, and oysters of which the shell
measurement shall be less than two and one half inches from
the hinge to the mouth, the said cargo or portion of cargo

When to be
deemed un-
culled.