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tion the Custom House enrollment or license of 

 snch boat, and if such boat is under Custom 

 House tonnage shall swear to lier tonnage. 



Sec. 4. And he it enacted^ That before grant- 

 ing such license the Comptroller shall receive 

 for it from such applicant the sum of three 

 dollars per ton for every ton the boat may 

 exhibited. ^°^^ measure ; said license shall be exhibited Avhen- 

 ever called for by any officer of the State 

 Fishery force or any person having a right 

 under the provision of this act to make arrests 

 and seizures for violating any of its provisions. 



Sec. 5. And he it enacted^ That no person or 

 boat licensed under the provisions of this act 

 shall take or catch, or be used in taking or 

 catching oysters with scoop, dredge, drag or 

 Depth of wa- siuiilar implement, in any waters of the Poto- 

 ters. mac River of less than twelve feet in depth, 



nor in any of the waters of said river between 

 the Maryland shore and straight lines as fol 

 lows : From the most eastern point of the 

 headland known as Posey' s Bluff, to a buoy 

 near the southern or south-eastern x)oint or 

 prong of Herron Island Bar, thence to Black- 

 istone's Island Light House, thence to a buoy 

 near the end of Cobb Point Bar. 



Sec. 6. And he it enacted. That if any person 

 or persons having been licensed under this act 

 to catch oysters with scoo]3, dredge, drag or 

 similar implement, in the waters of the Poto- 

 mac river, shall violate the provisions of the 

 preceding sections, such person or persons shall 

 be liable to arrest, and the boats, vessels and 

 equipments used shall be seized, and ui3on proof 

 of such violation before a Justice of the Peace 

 or a Judge of the Circuit Court for the county 

 neare&t the place of such violation, on arrest 

 and seizure shall be fined not less than fifty dol- 

 lars nor more than three hundred dollars : and 

 said fines and all costs of prosecution shall be a 

 lien on the boats, vessels and equix3ments, which, 



Liable to ar- 

 rest. 



