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Code of public local Imcs, article 19. 



Sec. 93. In all cases wliere a vessel or iudividual shall be tried under this law and acquitted, the expenses of the suit shall be borne 

 by the county. 



Sec. 99. Issue of warrant. 



Sec. 100. Fees. 



Sec. 101. Money from licenses to be paid to the county school fund. 



Laws of 1878, chapter 373. 



Section 1. Prohibits taking oysters with scoops, drags, or dredges, in Wicomico river, in Somerset county, on the eastern side of a 

 straight line from the mouth of Rock creek to Clay island light-house, under liability to heavy penalties and forfeitures. 



TALBOT COUNTY. 

 (See Dorchester county, laws of 1874, chapter 437 ; laws of 1876, chapter 405 ; laws of 1878, chapter 359.) 



WICOMICO COUNTY. 



(See Dorchester county, laws of 1868, chapter 228. ) 



Laws of 1872, chapter 241. 



Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to employ any canoe, boat, or vessel in taking oysters with scoop, dredge, or any 

 similar instrument, within the waters of Wicomico county, nor shall any person take oysters for sale within the waters of said county, 

 otherwise than with tongs, as restricted and regulated by the provisions of the general oyster-law in force in this state. 



Sec. 2. For the protection of the young oysters iu the waters of Wicomico county, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons 

 to convey beyond the limits of said county any oysters fi'om May 15 until September 1 in each year. 



Secs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Prescribe penalties and forfeitures, and regulate forms of official proceeding in anest and trial of offenders. 



WORCESTER COUNTY.— iax'S of 1868, chapter 343. 



Sec. 3. Prohibits taking oysters in this county for making into lime. 



Secs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Prescribe legal proceedings for arrest and the recovery of fees and penalties. 



Sec. 10. If any person shall take, steal, or sell planted oysters of another, knowing them to be such, from any of the waters in this 

 act mentioned, he shall, upon conviction in said court, be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, and may, at the 

 discretion of the court, be confined in jail not less than one nor more than six months. 



Last's of 1872, chapter 131. 



Sec. 2. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, other than citizens or actual residents of Maryland, to haul or fish with 

 any seine or seines of any description, rake or catch oysters, clams, or terrapins, or xjlant oysters in the waters of Siuepuxent bay or any 

 of the tributaries thereof included iu the boundaries of Worcester county. 



Secs. 3 and 4. Refer to seine fishing. 



Sec. 5. Provides fines and forfeitures in case of violation ; but provides that this act shall not restrict or prevent traders or other 

 persons from purchasing from or selling to non-residents the shellfish in this act mentioned. 



Sec. 6. If any citizen of Maryland shall be concerned or interested with any person not resident witliin this state in the taking, 

 catching, or planting of oysters in the waters of Sinepuxent bay, or in any of the tributaries thereof included in the boundaries of 

 Worcester county, or shall knowingly permit any person not a citizen and actual resident within this state to take, catch, or plant oysters 

 in his name, he shall be liable to the penalties and forfeitures imposed for the violation of the preceding sections of this act, and shall be 

 proceeded against in the same manner ; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the employment of non-residents as 

 day laborers for the above purposes. 



Secs. 7,H, 9, and 10. Forms of proceedings against alleged ofltaders, and disposal of condemned property forfeited. 



Sec. 11. In case of persons unlawfully eugaged fleeing from their boat, the boat or vessel shall be seized, which shall be condemned, 

 if the evidence sliows it to have been illegally used. 



Sec. 12. Money thus arising to be paid into the school fund. 



Sec. 13. Prohibits taking any shells from the " rocks or flats whereon oysters grow within the limits of Worcester county ". Penalty, 

 125. 



Sec. 14. All oysters in the shell disposed of iu the waters of Worcester county shall be measured in a sealed measure of any capacity, 

 from a half bushel to two bushels, that may be agreed upon between seller and buyer. Penalty, $25. 



Sec. 15. It shall be the duty of the purchaser or seller to have said measure or measures duly inspected and sealed by the standard- 

 keeper, under a forfeit of .$25 for each and every oft'ense. 



Laws of 1876, chapter 277. 



Section 1. Chapter 77, passed January, 1874, "for the protection of oysters in Sinepuxent bay and its tributaries, is hereby 

 repealed, but all violations of said act may be prosecuted and punished as fully as if said act had not been repealed". 



Sec. 2. The clerk of the circuit court for Worcester county may issue to any citizen of said county a license to take or catch oysters 

 with rakes or tongs from the waters of Sinepuxent bay and its tributaries, until the first day of May next after the issuing of said license ; 

 provided the applicant for said license shall satisfy said clerk, by his own oath or other suflicieut proof, that he is a citizen ol said 



