242                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 186

and Clams", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

708.

(u) Methods of taking or catching cultivated oysters.—A lessee
is privileged to cultivate or remove oysters so planted on his leased
area in any manner that he deems proper, provided he has complied
with the law providing for the licensing of boats or tongers in re-
moving them for market or transplanting; and provided, however,
that no lessee or holder of any submerged area in Dorchester,
Wicomico, Charles, Queen Anne's or Kent counties, or in the Mano-
kin River in Somerset County, shall take or catch oysters on such
leased land by any device other than tongs or patent tongs, and pro-
vided further that in Anne Arundel County no boat other than one in
which the lessee or holder of any submerged lands has at least a
partial interest shall operate over such leased land.

In Somerset County THAT WATER AREA IN SOMERSET
COUNTY ONLY IN POCOMOKE SOUND AND POCOMOKE
RIVER ONLY EAST OF TULL'S POINT AND MARUMSCO
NATURAL OYSTER BAR EASTWARD TO WILLIAMS' POINT,
[between June 1, 1957 and December 30, 1958,] a lessee may
authorize a nonresident to take oysters by tong only as herein pro-
vided, upon condition that said nonresident exhibit said authoriza-
tion in writing to the Department of Tidewater Fisheries and
obtain therefrom a license to take said oysters from the leased
grounds IN THAT PORTION OF SOMERSET COUNTY HERE-
INABOVE DESCRIBED. The non-resident shall in all respects
conform to the regulations provided in this Article. The license
herein provided shall cost [$15.00] $10.00 annually, which sum shall
be paid to and for the use of the Department of Tidewater Fisheries,
and said license shall be restricted to the leased oyster ground IN
THAT PORTION OF SOMERSET COUNTY HEREINABOVE
DESCRIBED authorized by the writing of the lessee aforesaid. The
Department of Tidewater Fisheries may at any time cancel any
such license when in the interests of conservation and the proper
cultivation of oysters in Somerset County, and in the interests of
the residents of Somerset County, such cancellation in the discretion
of the Department is advisable. [This paragraph shall not be
applicable after December 30, 1958.]

Any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this sub-
section relating to Anne Arundel County shall be fined not less than
$100.00 nor more than $1,000.00, and in addition to such fine the
boat so used, with her cargo and equipment, shall be condemned and
forfeited to the State of Maryland.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public health and safety, and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 11, 1959.