804 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 403

boat, of a capacity of seven gross tons or under, such capacity
to be ascertained by rules of the custom-house measurement, as
hereinafter provided, in taking and catching oysters with
dredge, scoop or scrape in the waters of the Choptank river,
in said counties, for sale from the first day of November and
the fifteenth day of March next succeeding, both inclusive, on
which last named day the license shall expire; provided, that
nothing in this section shall authorize the taking of oysters
with scoop, scrape or dredge above a straight line drawn from
the long wharf at Cambridge, known as Thomas' Wharf, on
the Dorchester shore, to the Bawdle House on the Talbot shore,
immediately opposite, or in any tributary of said river, above
or below said line; provided further, that the applicant shall
pay such clerk the sum of one dollar and ninety cents per gross

ton, according to the capacity of the vessel to be licensed,
which capacity shall be determined by gross tonnage; and all

boats measuring less than five tons gross shall pay eight dollars
for said license, which shall be good for one season only, and
shall only authorize the catching of oysters between the first
day of November and the fifteenth day of March next succeed-
ing; and until such license is obtained, it shall be unlawful to
use or employ any vessel in taking or catching any oysters, as
hereinbefore described; provided, that the waters of Talbot
county, lying between Black Walnut Point and a line drawn
from the southwest corner of Second Kent Point to Wales
Point, except the waters between Poplar Island and the main-
land, lying within a straight line drawn from Pawpaw Point on
Tilghman's Island to the southwesternmost point on Poplar
Island and by a straight line drawn from Lowe's Point on the
mainland to Bloody Point Lighthouse (this line is only to apply
to the east or inside of North Point Beach) which are re-
served for the taking or catching of oysters with tongs worked
exclusively by hand, shall be open to the citizens of Talbot Coun-
ty licensed under this section; but it shall be unlawful to take or

catch oysters with scrapes, scoops or dredge in any other waters
of Talbot county, provided further that the said clerks of the
said Courts, as aforesaid, upon application of any owner a
resident for one year in either of said counties and to no other
person, of a boat of the size of ten and fifty-two one-hundredths
tons gross or under, which was licensed to take oysters, as
aforesaid, with scoop, scrape or dredge in said waters for the
dredging season ending March the fifteenth, 1916, be and they
are hereby authorised and directed upon a certificate of the