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the provisions of tliis section, shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 in any Circuit Court in this State, or before a 

 Justice of the Peace, shall be fined not less 

 than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred 

 dollars, or imprisoned in the House of Correc- 

 tion, for a period of not less than three months, 

 nor more than two years : provided, the Court 

 or Justice of the Peace trying the same, shall 

 be convinced that the provisions of this section 

 have been intentionally violated. 



Must obtain 

 license. 



Boundaries 

 to be strictly 

 construed. 



Sec. 17. And he it enacted^ That any resi- 

 dent of this State, desiring to use any canoe 

 or other boat, in catching or taking oysters 

 with rakes or tongs for sale, in any of the 

 waters of this State, shall first obtain, by ap- 

 plication to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of 

 the county wherein he may reside, a license 

 therefor, and sucli license shall have elfectfrom 

 the first day of J line, in the year in which they 

 may have been obtained, to the fij st day of 

 June next succeeding ; provided, that such 

 license shall not authorize the use of said canoe 

 or boat in taking or catching oysters in any 

 creek, cove, river, inlet, bay or sound within 

 the limits of any county, other than that 

 wherein the license shall have been granted, 

 and that the boundaries of counties bordering 

 on navigable waters, shall be strictly construed 

 so as not t- ) permit the residents of either county 

 to take or catch oysters beyond the middle of 

 the dividing channel ; provided, that nothing 

 in this section shall be so construed as to pre- 

 vent the citizens of St. Mary's and Calvert 

 counties from using the waters of the Patuxent 

 river in common, or the citizens of Queen Anne' s 

 and Kent counties from using the waters of 

 Chester river in common, or the citizens of 

 Dorchester and Wicomico counties from using 

 the waters of the Nanticoke river in common, 

 or the citizens of Queen Anne's and Talbot 

 counties from using the waters of Wye river 

 and the mouth thereof in common, or citizens 



