702                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                             [Ch. 4

PROCEEDING IN A STRAIGHT LINE EASTERLY TO BENONI
LIGHTHOUSE; THEN IN A STRAIGHT LINE EASTERLY TO CHLORA
POINT; THEN IN ALONG THE SHORE EASTERLY TO HOWELL
POINT; THEN SOUTHERLY ACROSS THE CHOPTANK RIVER TO
HORN POINT; THEN WESTERLY IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO
CASTLEHAVEN POINT; THEN WESTERLY IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO
TODD POINT; THEN WESTERLY IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO COOK
POINT; ALONG THE SHORE TO HILL'S POINT; THEN IN A
STRAIGHT LINE TO JAMES' POINT ON JAMES' ISLAND; THEN
IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO SHARP'S ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE; THEN
IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO BLACKWALNUT POINT; THEN ALONG
THE SHORE TO THE DEPARTMENT MARKER, THE POINT OF THE
BEGINNING.

(3)    SOMERSET COUNTY ONLY. ALL THE WATERS
OF SOMERSET COUNTY, EXCEPT POCOMOKE SOUND, INCLUDING
THE WICOMICO, MANOKIN, AND BIG ANNEMESSEX RIVERS,
WHICH ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:

WICOMICO RIVER: EASTERLY OF A STRAIGHT LINE
DRAWN FROM THE FORMER DWELLING OF THOMAS TIGNER NEAR
HAINS POINT TO THE MOST SOUTHWESTERLY POINT OF CLAY
ISLAND.

MANOKIN RIVER: LANDWARD OR UPSTREAM OF A
STRAIGHT LINE JOINING SOUTH POINT ON LITTLE DEALS
ISLAND TO HAZARD POINT ON THE MAINLAND. BIG
ANNEMESSEX RIVER: EASTERLY OF A STRAIGHT LINE FROM
TENTH POINT TO PORPOISE POINT; AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF
THIS SECTION, TENTH POINT SHALL BE CONSIDERED TO BE
THE EASTERLY POINT OF THE MARSH AT THE ENTRANCE OF
THRU CREEK SHOWN ON PUBLISHED CHART NO. 7 OF THE
OYSTER SURVEY OF 1906 TO 1912, AT A POSITION OF
LATITUDE 38 DEGREES, 2 MINUTES, 19.20 SECONDS AND
LONGITUDE 75 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 39.47 SECONDS; AND
PORPOISE POINT SHALL BE CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST
WESTERLY POINT OF THE MARSH OF PAT ISLAND AND THAT
PART OF TANGIER SOUND, SOUTH OF A LINE DRAWN IN AN
EASTERLY COURSE FROM TERRAPIN SANDS POINT ON THE WEST
SIDE OF TANGIER SOUND TO THE CHANNEL AND THEN
FOLLOWING THE CHANNEL IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION TO THE
VIRGINIA LINE.

(4)   TALBOT COUNTY ONLY. THE WATERS LYING
BETWEEN A LINE DRAWN FROM LOWS POINT TO BLOODY POINT
LIGHTHOUSE AND A LINE DRAWN FROM WADES POINT FARMHOUSE
TO WADES POINT BELL BOOT AND THEN FROM WADES POINT
BELL BUOY TO SECOND KENT OR LONG POINT.

(C) PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF DREDGING.--ANY BOAT

SAILING OVER ANY AREAS OF THE STATE WHICH ARE EXEMPT