ART. 5.] CALVERT COUNTY. 673

SECTION 1. Jie it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall not be lawful for any person to take or catch
oysters for sale with rakes, tongs or any other instrument
whatever in the waters of Mill Creek, Back Creek or St. John's
Creek, in Calvert county, for the period of four years from the
passage of this Act, except from lands in said waters located
and appropriated or which may hereafter be located and ap-
propriated by virtue of any Act or Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, authorizing the location and appropriation
thereof for the purpose of protecting, depositing, bedding or
sowing oysters.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person violating the pro-
visions of the preceding section shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction before a justice of the peace or
the Circuit Court for Calvert county, shall pay a fine of not less
than, twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and
every offense, and shall stand committed to the county jail
until fine and costs are fully paid; one-half of all fines under
this Act to be paid to the informer and one-half to be paid to
the School Commissioners of Calvert county tor the benefit of
the public schools therein.

SEC. 3. A.nd be it enacted, That for the purpose of this Act a
line drawn from the steamboat wharf at Solomon's Island and
running in a northeasterly direction to lower Ship Point, on
Rousby Hall farm, shall be the dividing line between the mouth
of Mill Creek and the Patuxent River.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 13, 1908.
REMOVAL OF CAUSES—See Chapter 541, page 222.

CHAPTER 622.

AN ACT to provide for the repairs of the public roads of Cal-
vert county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
month of November, in the year 1909, and on the same day
every two years thereafter there shall be held in Calvert county
an election for three road commissioners of the said county, at
which each voter of the said county, duly registered under the
laws of the State, shall have the right to vote, and the said elec-