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her capture, or, if captured in Baltimore, by order 
of the Judge of the City Court, and shall be sold 
by the sheriff of the county where condemned to 
the highest bidder for cash, after twenty days’ notice 
of the time and place of sale, such notice to be pub- 
lished at least three times in a newspaper having 
the largest circulation printed in Baltimore city, or 
in the county where condemned ; one-fourth of the 
proceeds of such sale shall be paid to the party making 
the capture, except the officers of the fishery force, 
and the balance shall be paid into the Treasury of 
the State. 
Sec. 12. And be it enacted , That any person who 
shall, without authority from the owner, catch oys- 
ters planted or bedded, shall be deemed guilty of a 
felony, and on conviction in the Circuit Court of the 
county wherein the oysters were bedded shall be 
sentenced to the penitentiary for a term not exceed- 
ing three years. 
Sec. 13. And be it enacted , That it shall be un- 
lawful for any person to catch oysters, except for 
private use, or for the purpose of replanting or bed- 
ding in the waters of this State, or for sale to the 
citizens of the county wherein they are caught, or 
the county next adjoining, betw T een the first day of 
May and the first day of September in each and 
every year. Any person violating this section shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined by a 
justice of the peace of the county wherein the of- 
fence was committed, not exceeding fifty dollars. 
Sec. 14. And be it enacted , That it shall be unlaw- 
ful for any person to catch oysters on Sunday or at 
night, and any person violating this section shall 
be fined a sum not less than fifty nor more than 
five hundred dollars, by the judge or justice of the 
peace trying the case. 
Sec. 15. And be it enacted , That the Comptroller 
of the Treasury shall have painted, in black figures 
on white canvas, two sets of numbers, corresponding 
to the license, to catch oysters with scoop, dredge or 
similar instrument ; each figure shall be twenty- 
two inches in length, and of proportionate width, 
and the figures at least six inches apart ; and he 
shall give to each person taking out such license two 
numbers thereof, one of which shall be firmly sewed 
Proceeds 
of sale. 
Guilty of 
a felony. 
Penalty.. 
Sunday or 
at night. 
N umbers. 
Size. 
