1202                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 557

CHAPTER 556
(House Bill 688)

AN ACT to add new Section 700(n) to Article 66C of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume), title "Natural
Resources," subtitle "Oysters and Clams," to follow immediately
after Section 700(m) thereof, to permit patent and hand tonging,
but not dredging, in a certain part of the Talbot County area of
Eastern Bay.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 700(n) be and it is hereby added to Article 66C
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume),
title "Natural Resources," subtitle "Oysters and Clams," to follow
immediately after Section 700(m) thereof, and to read as follows:

700.

(n) Patent and hand tonging, but not dredging, shall be per-
mitted in Talbot County waters within the following bounds:

Beginning in Eastern Bay at a point on the Talbot-Queen Anne's
County line which is intersected by a straight line drawn from Lowes
Point to the Bloody Point Lighthouse, from there in a northeasterly
direction along the Talbot-Queen Anne's County line to the point
where a straight line drawn from the Long Point buoy to the Wades
Point bell-buoy (R "2A") intersects the County line, from there in
a southeasterly direction to the Wades Point bell-buoy (R "2A"),
from there towards Wades Point for a distance of six-tenths (.6)
of a mile to the six foot depth contour line off the Eastern Bay shore
of Talbot County, from there along the contour line (approximately
one-half mile from the shore) in a southwesterly direction to a point
where the contour line intersects a straight line drawn from the
easternmost corner of the Lowes Point oyster bar to the northern-
most corner of the Lowes Point oyster bar, from there in a north-
westerly direction to the northernmost corner of the Lowes Point
oyster bar, from there in a southwesterly straight line to a straight
line drawn from Lowes Point to the Bloody Point Lighthouse and
being approximately one and three-quarter miles in a northwesterly
direction from Lowes Point, and from thence to the point of begin-
ning.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved May 17, 1971.

CHAPTER 557
(House Bill 713)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 24 of
Article 75 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement
Volume), title "Pleadings, Practice and Process at Law," subtitle