OYSTERS. 
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS. 
Chapter 364 of Laws of 1870 as amended by Chap- 
ter 157 Laws of 1872, which repealed Chapter 406 
Laws of 1868 and Chapter 184 Laws of 1867, 
which repealed Article 71 Code of Public Gen- 
eral Laws as amended by Chapter 333 Laws of 
1864, and Chapter 181 of the Laws of 1865 are 
repealed by Chapter 181 Laws 0 /* 1874. Sections 
3 and 5 of Chapter 181, Laws of 1874, are re- 
pealed^ and re-enacted by Chapter 380 Laws of 
1876. 
Laws of 1874, Chapter 181. 
Section 1. Be it enacted , That no steamer shall 
be used in catching oysters in this State, and no 
other boat shall be nsed in catching oysters with 
scoop, dredge or similar instrument, without first 
having been licensed as hereinafter provided. 
Sec. 2. Be it enacted , That the Comptroller of the 
Treasury shall, upon application of any person who 
has been a resident of this State for twelve con- 
secutive months next preceding such application, and 
to no other person, issue a license to such resident to 
employ such boat in catching oysters with scoop, 
dredge or similiar instrument, within the waters of 
the Chesapeake Bay, and in Eastern Bay, outside of 
a line drawn from the southwest corner of second 
Kent Point to Wade’s Point; provided, that nothing 
herein contained shall authorize the catching of 
oysters with scoop, dredge or similiar instrument, on 
any oyster bar within one and a half miles of Talley’s 
Point, Sandy Point, Hackett’s Point, Thomas’ Point, 
Holland Island Bar, Three Sisters, Swan Point Bar, 
Poplar Island, one quarter of a mile west of, and be- 
tween the island and the main land, nor within half 
mile of Plum Point, and to buy and sell oysters in 
Prohibited 
Issue li- 
cense to 
catch oys- 
ters. 
