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PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS. 
Issue li- 
cense. 
When un- 
lawful. 
and seventy-four, and chapter four hundred and five 
of the acts passed at January session, eighteen hun- 
dred and seventy-six, relating to the catching of oys- 
ters with scoop, scrape or dredge in the waters of 
Dorchester and Talbot counties, be and the same 
are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend- 
ments, as follows : 
Sec. 2. And he it enacted , That the Clerk of the 
Circuit Court of Talbot or Dorchester county shall, 
upon the application of any person who has been a 
resident of such county for twelve months next pre- 
ceding such application, and to no other person, 
issue a license to such resident to employ any boat 
of a capacity of ten tons or under, such capacity to 
be ascertained by Custom House measurement, in 
taking or catching oysters with dredge, scoop or 
scrape in the waters of the Choptank river in said 
counties, for sale to any person between the fifteenth 
day of September in each year and the first day of 
June next following; provided that nothing in this, 
act shall authorize the taking of oysters with dredge, 
scoop or scrape, above a straight line drawn from 
Oyster Shell Point on the Dorchester shore to the 
Talbot shore, immediately opposite, or in any trib- 
utaries of said river above or below said Oyster Shell 
Point; and provided further, that the applicant 
shall pay to said clerk, before the issuing of said li- 
cense, the sum of two dollars per ton, according to 
the capacity of the vessel to be licensed, which said 
license shall be good for twelve months from the 
day of its issue ; and until such license is obtained 
it shall be unlawful to use or employ any vessel in 
taking or catching oysters as hereinbefore described ; 
provided that the waters of Talbot county lying be- 
tween Black Walnut Point and a line drawn from 
Tilghman’s Point to the southwest point of Parson’s. 
Island, except the waters between Poplar Island and 
the main land lying wfithin a line drawn from a. 
point of land on the north side of Perry cove, known 
as Lovre’s Point, to the northern extremity of Poplar 
Island on the north to a line from the northwest 
extremity of Tilghman’s Island to the southern ex- 
tremity of south bar of Poplar Island on the south, 
which are hereby reserved for the use of tong men, 
shall be opened to the citizens of Talbot county, 
