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hereafter located and appropriated by virtue of any 
act or acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, 
authorizing the location and appropriation thereof 
for the purpose of protecting, preserving, depositing, 
bedding or sowing oysters, and any person violating 
the provisions of this law shall be deemed guilty of 
a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof 
before a justice of the peace of said county be fined 
a sum not less than twenty nor more than fifty 
dollars. 
Sec. 2. And be it enacted , That for the purposes 
of this act a line drawn from the steamboat wharf 
on Solomon’s Island, and running in a northeasterly 
direction to Township Point on Rousby Hall farm, 
shall be the dividing line between the mouth of Mill 
Creek and the Patuxent River. 
KENT COUNTY. 
Section 1, Chapter 359, Laws of 1872, is modified 
by Chapter 381, Laws of 1876. See Queen Anne’s 
County . 
Laws of 1872, Chapter 359. 
Section 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
of Maryland , That any resident of either Queen 
Anne’s or Kent county owning or having in his pos- 
session any canoe or other boat under Custom House 
tonnage, and desiring to use said boat or canoe in 
taking or catching oysters for sale with rakes or 
tongs, in any of the waters of the aforesaid coun- 
ties, shall first obtain, by application to the Clerk of 
the Circuit Court for that county wherein he may 
reside, a license, such as is now prescribed by the 
General Law, and which said license shall give him 
a right to take or catch oysters in the waters of 
either Queen Anne’s or Kent county; and such li- 
cense shall have effect from the first day of October 
in the year in which it shall have been obtained to 
the first day of October next succeeding, subject to 
the provisions of the General Law as to the time 
in which oysters shall be caught or taken with tongs ; 
provided , that such license shall not authorize the 
use of said canoe or boat in taking or catching oys- 
ters in any creek, river, cove, inlet, bay or sound 
within the limits of any county other than Queen 
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