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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 432.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 172
of Article 20 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Som-
erset County," sub-title " Oysters."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal.

land, that section 172 of Article 20 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title " Somerset County," sub-title " Oysters," be
and the same is hereby repealed and re- enacted, so as to read
as follows :

172. The clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset county,

License to be
Issued.

upon the application of any person who has been a resident of
the county for six months and of the State for twelve months
immediately preceding his application, and is a bona fide owner
of the vessel to be used by him, or upon a certificate of any
justice of the peace of said county, certifying to the same,
shall issue to such citizen a license authorizing him to catch or
take oysters with scoop, scrape or dredge in any waters of said
county not parcel of any creek, river, cove or inlet, which
license shall hold good for one oyster season only, and shall
only authorize the catching of oysters as aforesaid, between the
fifteenth day of October in any year and the fifteenth day of
March next succeeding, on which said last mentioned day the
said season shall close and end in said county, and said license
shall expire ; but no vessel over ten and one-half tons gross
tonnage, ascertained by proper custom house measurement, shall
be authorized to be used under any such license, and no vessel
over ten and one-half tons gross tonnage shall be used or em-
ployed in taking oysters in any waters of said county, and the
said license shall specify the canoe or vessel to be used by the
licensee, the number and name, and said citizen shall pay for
said license at the rate of two dollars per ton for the vessel so
employed ; and the tonnage of vessels and canoes to be licensed
shall be ascertained by custom house measurement, and no
canoe or other vessel shall be employed in taking oysters with
scrapes, scoops, drag or dredge, in the waters of Somerset
county unless the owner thereof shall have first obtained a
license therefor as above provided, and any person having a
license aforesaid, for any vessel shall also provide a number on
canvass to be prescribed and furnished by the clerk of the
Circuit Court of the same size as that required now or here-
after by the State oyster law, in red figures, corresponding with
the number of his said license, and shall affix the same securely
to the mainsail, but on the opposite side thereof from that
required by the State law, and shall keep the said number in