1116 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

person or persons in Somerset County to take oysters with
tongs in any canoe or other sail boat while said canoe or sail
boat is propelled in whole or in part by wind or sail, which
said taking in manner aforesaid shall at all times within said
county be a misdemeanor and punishable as provided for other
offences under this section; and any person having a license
aforesaid for any vessel shall provide a number on canvas, to be
prescribed and furnished by the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Somerset County, 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 fix the same
securely to the main sail but on the opposite side thereof from
that required by the State Oyster Law, and shall keep the said
number in proper position and plainly visible at all time while
at work, or going to or from work during the dredging season,
and the provisions of this section shall not apply to Pocomoke
Sound, wherein it shall be unlawful at all times to take oysters,
with scoop, scrape, drag or dredge, or any similar instrument;
and said license shall not be transferable; and any person or
persons violating any of the provisions of this section or found
guilty of damaging his or their boat, to escape a just and
proper measurement of the same by the Custom House Officials,
shall be found guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon convic-
tion before any justice of the peace or the Circuit Court for
Somerset County, be fined in a sum not less than one hundred
dollars or more than three hundred dollars for each offense, or
sentenced to the House of Correction for one year, or both, in
the direction of the Court or justice of the peace trying the
same.

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

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 98.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Council of Crisfield, in
Somerset County, Maryland, to issue additional bonds on the
credit of said municipal corporation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and Council of Crisfield, in Somerset
County, Maryland, are hereby authorized and empowered, from
time to time, to issue bonds on the faith and credit of said
municipal corporation in the sum Of not exceeding twenty
thousand dollars, the proceeds of the sale whereof shall be ap-
plied : first, to the payment or refunding of all past due in-