1292 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 680

"Oysters," sub-title "Ponging," regulating the taking of
oysters in the Tred Avon River and its tributaries in Tal-
bot County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 1 of Article 72 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Oysters," sub-title "Tonging," be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as
follows:

1. Any resident of this State desiring to catch oysters with
rakes or tongs for sale in any of the waters of this State shall
first obtain by application to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for the county wherein he may reside a separate license for
every person to be employed on such boat, and such license
shall have effect from the first day of September, in the year
which it may have been obtained, to the twenty-fifth day of
April, inclusive, next succeeding: provided, that such license
shall not authorize the taking or catching of oysters in any
creek, cove, river, inlet, bay or sound within the limit of any
county other than that wherein the license shall have been
granted; and that the boundaries of the counties or navigable
waters shall be strictly construed so as not to permit the resi-
dents of either county to take or catch oysters beyond tin-
middle of the dividing channel; provided, that nothing in this
section shall be so construed as to prevent the citizens of Queen
Anne's and Kent Counties from using the waters of Chester
River in common, or the citizens of Dorchester and Wicomico
Counties from using the waters of Nanticoke River in com-
mon, or the citizens of Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties
from using the waters of the Wye River and the mouth thereof
in common, or the citizens of Dorchester and Talbot Counties
from using the waters of the Choptank River in common;
provided, however, that the County Commissioners shall' be
authorized to give special permission to any woman who has
no visible means of support to take and catch oysters without"
license. Provided, that the open season for the taking or catch-
ing of oysters in the Tred Avon River and its tributaries in
Talbot County shall be from the first day of October to the
twenty-fifth day of April, each year, both dates inclusive;
and the open season for the taking or catching of oysters on
the oyster bar known as Tilghman's Point, bordering on the
Tred Avon River near the town limits of Oxford, in said