J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           731

CHAPTER 570
(Senate Bill 568)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, sub-section
708(u) of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition), title "Natural Resources", sub-title "Oysters and Clams",
authorizing the taking or catching of privately cultivated oysters
in Charles County in the Patuxent River by devices other than
tongs and patent tongs.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That sub-section 708(u) of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Natural Resources", sub-title "Oys-
ters and Clams", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, 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 removing them for market or transplanting; and provided, how-
ever, that no lessee or holder of any submerged area in Dorchester,
Wicomico, Charles (in waters other than the Patuxent River), Queen
Anne's or Kent Counties, or in the Manokin River in Somerset
County, shall take or catch oysters on such leased land by any device
other than tongs or patent tongs, and provided 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, between June 1, 1957 and December 30, 1958,
a lessee may authorize a nonresident to take oysters by tong only as
herein provided, upon condition that said nonresident exhibit said
authorization in writing to the Department of Tidewater Fisheries
and obtain therefrom a license to take said oysters from the leased
grounds. The nonresident shall in all respects conform to the regu-
lations provided in this article. The license herein provided shall cost
$15.00, 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 authorized by the writing of the lessee afore-
said. 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.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.