SOMERSET COUNTY. 1115

CHAPTER 121.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 172
of Article 20 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Somer-
set County," subtitle "Oysters," as amended by Act of the
General Assembly of 1900, Chapter 472, and by Act of the
General Assembly of 1902, Chapter 422, relating to the tak-
ing of oysters with scoops, scrapes, drag or dredge within
the waters of Somerset County, and prohibiting the taking of
oysters with tongs in any boat propelled, in whole or part, by
wind or sail.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 172 of Article 20 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Somerset County," subtitle "Oysters," as
amended by the Acts of the General Assembly of 1900, Chapter
472, and by the Acts of the General Assembly of 1902, Chapter
422, be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

Section 172. The clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset
County, upon application of any person who has been a resi-
dent of the county for six months and of the State of Maryland
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, certify-
ing to such application, 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 1st day of November in any year, and
the 31st day of March next succeeding, on which said last men-
tioned 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 measurement, 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 employed in taking oysters in any
waters of said county; and the said license shall specify the
canoe or vessel to be used by the license, 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 measurements, and no canoe or other vessel shall be em-
ployed in taking oysters with scrapes, scoops, drag or dredge_r
or other similar instruments, in the waters of Somerset County,
unless the owner thereof shall first have obtained a license
therefor as above provided; and it shall be unlawful for any