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the provisions of this Act for such purposes of planting or 

 cultivating. 



SECTION 112. It shall not be necessary for any holder of 

 oyster land under this Act to take out any license for dredging, 

 scraping or tonging oysters on any land so held by him, and 

 oysters on such land may be taken in any manner and at such 

 times as may be desired by the holder of such land as allowed 

 by the existing laws of this State. 



SECTION 113. Any person who shall wilfully and without 

 authority take or remove oysters from any land leased under 

 the provisions of this Act, or shall wilfully injure or interfere 

 with the oysters of such land in any manner, or injure the 

 oysters thereupon situated, or remove, alter or interfere with 

 the stakes, buoys or monuments marking the same, shall, upon 

 conviction thereof, for the first offense, be sentenced to impris- 

 onment in jail or in the penitentiary, in the discretion of the 

 Court, for not less than three months and not more than two 

 years, and for the second, or any subsequent offense, be sen- 

 tenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than 

 two years and not more than five years. 



SECTION 114. Any person who shall work a dredge, scrape 

 or pair of tongs, or any other implement for the taking of 

 oysters upon any land leased under the provisions of this Act 

 without the consent of the lessee or owner, or who shall, while 

 upon or sailing over any such ground or bed, cast, haul or have 

 overboard any such dredge, scrape or pair of tongs, or other 

 implement for the taking of oysters, under any pretense or for 

 any purpose whatever, without the consent of such lessee or 

 owner, upon conviction thereof, shall, for the first offense, be 

 fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred 

 and fifty dollars, in the discretion of the Court, be imprisoned 

 in jail, or in the penitentiary for not less than three months, 

 nor more than one year, or shall be both so fined and impris- 

 oned, and for the 'second, or any subsequent offense, shall be 

 sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than 

 two years nor more than five years. 



SECTION 115. Any person who shall make his boat fast to 

 a State buoy, or remove the same, or in any manner interfere 

 therewith, the same shall, in the discretion of the Court, upon 



