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expended in the procuring of seed oysters to be 
planted in said bay as the commissioners aforesaid 
may direct, but no person licensed as above, nor any 
other person, shall take or remove any oysters from 
the waters of said bay or its tributaries on any Sun- 
day or in the night at any season, nor during the day 
from the first day of May to the first day of October, 
or any shells from the natural rocks at any time; 
provided that nothing herein shall be construed to 
forbid any person from taking or catching his or her 
own planted oysters at any time and with any kind 
of instrument; and any person violating any of the 
provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and upon indictment and conviction there- 
for shall be fined not less than ten nor more than 
fifty dollars for each offence, with costs. 
Sec. 3. And be it enacted , That no person shall 
catch, take or remove any shells or oysters from the 
natural beds in the waters of Sinepuxent Bay or its 
tributaries with scrapes, scoops, dredges or drags, or 
with any instrument in the working of which any 
other than hand power is used, and any person vio- 
lating any of the provisions of this section shall, 
upon indictment and conviction therefor, be fined 
not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dol- 
lars for each offence, with cost. 
Sec. 4. And be it enacted , That it shall be lawful 
for any citizen of Worcester county to plant, or for 
any resident to lay down, oysters on not exceeding 
five acres in any one place in any of the waters ex- 
cept upon the natural rocks of the said bay or its 
tributaries, and that no person, except the owner or 
his employee, shall work upon or among said planted 
or laid, down oysters ; provided that portion of the 
said waters so planted in be kept plainly marked 
with bushes, stakes or buoys, and any person mali- 
ciously removing said bushes, stakes or buoys shall 
be liable to the penalties of this section ; and pro- 
vided that nothing in this section shall effect the 
rights of owners of land to the exclusive use of any 
creek, cove or inlet, within their said lands, not ex- 
ceeding one hundred yards in width at its mouth, 
and any person violating the provisions of this sec- 
tion shall be liable to be sued as for damage to any 
other property, and upon indictment and conviction 
Proviso. 
Penalty. 
Shall not 
catch. 
Penalty. 
Be lawful. 
Proviso. 
Proviso. 
