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application, issue a license to such resident, and to no
other person, to employ such boat in taking or catching
oj^sters with scoop, dredge or similar instrument within
the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac Elver and
in Eastern Bay, outside of a line drawn from the southwest
corner of First Kent Point to north end of Poplar Island;
provided, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the
taking or catching of oysters with scoop, dredge or similar in-
strument on any oyster bar within one and one-half miles of
Tolley's Point, Sandy Point, Hackett's Point, Thomas' Point,
Holland's Island bar and Three Sisters, nor within one and
one-half miles of Holland's Point bar, nor of Swan's Point bar,
nor between Poplar Island and the mainland of Talbot
County, south of a line drawn from the north point of Poplar
Island to Low's Point on the mainland, nor north of a line
drawn from the end of the south bar of Poplar Island to
Pawpaw cove, on Tilghman Island, nor within one-quarter of
a mile west of Poplar Island, nor within one-half of a mile of
Plum Point, nor within the boundary lines of any county,
unless herein otherwise specified, which license shall hold 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 on which day the dredging season shall end;
provided, however, it shall be lawful for the owner of any such
licensed boat whenever said owner shall sell and convey by
bill of sale for a bona fide consideration such boat to any per-
son who has been a resident of the State of Maryland for at
least one year to transfer said license to said purchaser with
said boat, which license when transferred shall entitle said
purchaser to the same privileges of catching and taking oysters
with said boat in the waters of this State that the original
owner had before such assignment; provided, said seller and
purchaser appear before the Commission of Tidewater Fish-
eries and make oath before it to all facts, matters and things
required of said original owner of such boat before taking out
such license, and the purchaser shall pay the Commission the
sum of Five Dollars ($5. 00) for the use of the oyster fund,
upon which said license said Commission shall certify in
writing that the said sum has been so paid; the provision of
this Section in relation to the time of taking oysters, the time
of expiration of license and the transfer of ownership shall
apply to all vessels licensed by any county in this State to take
and catch oysters with dredge, scrape or scoop.

Any person who shall dredge without a license or dredge in
the waters not provided for in this Section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction before any
Justice of the Peace or Court of competent jurisdiction shall
be subject to the penalties provided for in Section 28 of this