Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 123 



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 de- 

 sired by the holder of such land as allowed by the existing laws of 

 this State. 



Section 113. Any person who shall wilfully and without au- 

 thority take or remove oysters from any land leased under the pro- 

 visions 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 imprisonment in jail or in the peni- 

 tentiary, in the discretion of the Court, for riot less than three 

 months and not more than two years, and for the second, or any 

 subsequent offense, be sentenced 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 con- 

 sent 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, with- 

 out 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, or 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 

 imprisoned, 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 there- 

 with, the same shall, in the discretion of the Court, upon con- 

 viction thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not 

 less than one year or more than two years. 



