THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                  1095

to stand in the place and stead of the section so repealed, and to read
as follows:

653.

(i) Privileges of a Tonging License—Locations. Any person
granted a tonging license in the manner described in the preceding
sub-sections shall be entitled to take or catch oysters with tongs and
patent tongs, SUBJECT TO ALL EXISTING RESTRICTIONS
WITH REGARD TO THE AREAS IN WHICH THE USE OF
SAID PATENT TONGS IS PROHIBITED, during the season for
taking oysters as follows: In the waters of the county wherein such
license is granted; and in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, except
that all waters within one and one-half miles of Sandy Point, Hackett's
Point, Tolley's Point, Thomas' Point, Three Sisters Bar and Holland's
Point Bar shall be considered ivithin the limits of Anne Arundel Coun-
ty; and the oysters bars of Entrance Lump, White Marsh, Gum
Springs, Hunting Field, Windmill Flats, Muddy Drain, Swan Point
and Lighthouse Lump shall be considered to lie within the limits of
Kent County; and Hickory Thicket Bar shall be used in common by
the tongers of Kent and Queen Anne's Counties. In the waters of the
Potomac River and its tributaries oysters may be taken with tongs
only, but no oysters shall be taken with patent tongs.

No licensed tonger shall take or catch oysters in the waters of any
county other than that in which the license was issued, except, how-
ever, that duly licensed tongers of Queen Anne's and Kent Counties
may use the waters of the Chester River in common; tongers of Dor-
chester and Wicomico Counties may use the Nanticoke River in
common; tongers of Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's Counties may
use the waters of the Patuxent River in common; tongers of Queen
Anne's and Talbot Counties may use the south branch of the Wye
River and the mouth thereof in common; tongers of Dorchester and
Talbot Counties, and the fourth Election District of Caroline County,
may use the Choptank River in common, except as restricted in the
following sub-section.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 25, 1955.

CHAPTER 660
(House Bill 457)

AN ACT to require applications for changes in zoning classifications
of property within incorporated municipalities within the Mary-
land—Washington Regional District to be submitted to the gov-

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