HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1413

(m) Fire Arms on Dredge Boats. It shall be unlawful for
the captain or master, or any person on board of, or having
control of any dredge boat, to have or to permit to be had
or kept on such boat any cannon, howitzer or any piece of ord-
nance or any swivel, musket, rifle or other species larger than
a pistol, except two-shot guns not larger than a number ten
gauge and using shot not larger than number one. No person
shall discharge any species of fire arms at or toward any
officer authorized under this Article to make arrests while such
officer is engaged in discharging his duties hereunder, or at or
toward any boat upon which such officer shall be while engaged
in discharging his duties hereunder.

(n) Display of Dredging License. The captain or master of
any licensed dredge boat shall always have such license on
board his boat and shall exhibit same wherever it shall be de-
manded by any duly authorized officer or employee of the De-
partment of Tidewater Fisheries.

(o) Dredging in Exempted Waters. It shall be unlawful to
sail any boat over any areas of this State which are exempt
from dredging, either by this Article or by any regulations of
the Department of Tidewater Fisheries, with any dredge,
scrape, scoop or similar instrument on board or in tow, and
any officer of the Department, who shall see any such boat
sailing. over such area with any of such equipment or para-
phernalia aboard, shall apprehend such boat, and if the boat
shall have on board any wet oysters, dredge or dredge line,
or if the deck be wet and the boat be equipped for taking or
catching oysters with dredge or similar instrument, such fact
or facts shall be prima facie evidence that said boat has been
used in violating the provisions of this section.

7. DREDGING IN COUNTY WATERS.

(a) Authorizing Dredge Boats in County Waters. It shall
be lawful to use or employ boats duly licensed, as provided
herein, to take or catch oysters by dredge in Dorchester, Talbot
and Somerset Counties in water hereinafter specified.

(b) Size of Boat for Dredging in County Waters. It shall be
unlawful to use any boat exceeding seven gross tons reckoned
by rules of custom house measurement, to take or catch oysters
by dredge in the water of Dorchester or Talbot Counties, ex-
cept boats which were licensed to take oysters prior to the
year 1900 in said waters and have been licensed so to do for
each successive year since that time which boats shall not
exceed 101/2 tons or to use any boat exceeding ten and one-
half tons, reckoned in the same manner, to take or catch
oysters by dredge in the waters of Somerset County.