The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-05-20
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.

be construed to prohibit vessels from seeking har-
tSs sect sa OF extend to oaP
take oysters with SCOOP or scrape by any county OF
SEC IL Any resident of this state desiring to
catch or take oysters with rakes or tongs for sale,
in any OF the waters of this state shall first obtain
by application to the clerk of the Circuit Court for
the county wherein he may reside license there
for and such license shall have effect from the If
teenth day of september in the year in which it
may have been obtained to the twentieth day of
April, inclusive, next succeeding; provided that
such license shall not authorize the taking or catch
ing of oysters in any creek cove river, inlet. bay
or sound within the limits of any county other
than that wherein the license shall have been
granted, and that the boundaries of the counties
bordering navignble waters shall be strictly
county to take or catch oysters beyond the middle
OF the dividing channel; provided that nothing IN
citizens of Queen Annes and Kent counties from
using the waters OF the Chester River in common,
ties from using the waters of Nanticoke River in
common. or the citizens OF Queen Anne and Tai
bot counties from using the waters of Wye River
OF Dorchester and Talbot counties FROM using the
waters of the Choptank River in common; pro-
shall be authorized TO give special permission to
any woman who has no visible means of support
to take and catch oysters without license; pro-
vided also that boys under fifteen years of age
shall not bt required to license.
SEC. 10. Each and every license to take or catch
oysters for sale with rakes or tongs shall state the
name, age and residence of the person to whom the
same is TO be granted. the number and the county
in which the same is to be used, and every appli
can't for such license shall pay to the clerk Of the
court when such license may be granted, and be-
fore the issuing and delivery of the same, the sum
OF three dollars, and also the sum of hfty cents as
fee to the clerk for issuing the same Nine-tenths
of the amount received from longing licenses shall
be paid by the clerks to the school commissioners
where such licenses are issued. lie sum reeeiyed
from white tonsers to 20 to the white schools and
the SUM received from colored tongers to go to the
colored schools.
SEC. 16. Every applicant for license to take or
catch oysters with rakes or tongs shall be required
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thoriZed to issue the same, some justice of the
peace, on whose certificate of the taking of such
license, that the facts forth in said license are
strictly true; that he has been bona-de resident
his application for said license; That he desires
and intends to said license in the county in
provided in this article and that he
will comply with and obey all the laws of this state
the taking or catching of oysters.
SEC II. the Comptroller of the Treasury shall
cause TO be printed and delivered to the clerk of
requisite number of such blank licenses, and take
receipts for the for other licenses fur
nished; and said clerks shall, on the first Monday
of March and December of each year. return TO the
Comptroller a list and account OF such licenses
issded by them and at the end of each tenging sea-
son shall return all unused licenses to him, and
shall pay to the Comptroller one-tenth of the
amount received by them for such licenses, which
amount the said Comptroller shall place TO the
credit of the 'Oyster Fund.-. and license to take
or catch oysters with rakes or tongs snail be used
on any boat or vessel which is licensed to take
catch oysters with scoop, drag dredge or any SINH
lar instrument during the season for which such
boat vessel is licensed, and all licenses shall
pire at the end of the season.
SEC. 20. That all oysters taken from any waters
of this state (either with scoops, dredges or any
similar instrument, or tongs or rakes) shall be
culed upon their natural bed or bar as taken. and
l oyster shells. and oysters whose SHELLS measure
ing from hinge 10 mouth, shall be included in said
cullng and replaced upon said bed or bar as taken
SEC. 20 A. Any person who shall have oysters in
his possession which contain more than five per
cent of shells and small oysters shall be guilty OF
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centage the officer of the police force, oyster meas
urer Inspectors hereby authorized and directed
the pile. hold. bin or other place he may think
necessary. and to Gull or have culled the amount
SEC 20 B. In order to ascertain the quantity of
small oysters, under size, and shells in any bulk or
The measurer, to Gull or have cliled one standard
measure or tub out OF every nifty tubs. and in the
MS then one Standard tub from such quantity as
there may be- and If found to contain five per cent.
Or less of shells and small oysters then the pur-
chaser shall pay for oil oysters taken by him, with
put any allowance for shells ana small oysters, and
IN the event of there being over five per cent. of
shells and small oysters then said cargo shah be
considered as not properly culled, and the owner
shall be subject to the penalties prescribed IL Sec
SEC. % C. 1t shall be unlawful for any packer.
man or other person to purchase or
receive any cargo or portion of cargo of oysters
which shall not have been culled in the manner
provided in Section twenty of this act, and soon
rs any cull-tub shall be shown to contain more
than live per cent of empty shells and oysters,
and oysters of which the shell measurement shall
be less than two and one-haf inches from hinge to
mouth. said cargo shall for the purposes OF this
section be deemed to have been unculled.
SEC. 20 d. Any PACKER. commission man or boat
son TO evade any of the provisions of this act, or
who shall knowingly connlve at or participate In
such violation, shall be deemed guilty OF misde-
SEC 20 E. 1t shall be the duty of the general
ndinspector of oysters to supervise the
of this act so far as may be possible and
diligently to aid in the enforcement OF its pro-
visions.
IF oysters in this state who owingly permit
my evasion or violation of this act to take place
without causing the arrest of the offender shall be
leelned guilty of a misdemeanor.
SEC 20 q: For the purpose of the enforcement
the provisions of this act the Governor is hereby
and directed to appoint eight Inspectors
By and with the consent of the Senate who shall not
,alary of six hundred dollars each for the season.
beginning the first day of September and ending on
The first day of May following; in each and every
follows: One TO Baltimore City. one to Anne Arun-
lei county. one to oxford one TO ST. Michaes, one
county and one for Somerset county outside of
crisfeld district. Whenever in any other of the
ping interests shall arise of sufficient Importance TO
Justify such appointment or appointments.theG Gov
;uch additional inspectors necessary for the en-
'orcenent of this act; and it shall be the duty of
regularly eacn working day during the oyster sea:
Ion, and they shall have power to inspect all
,ersds or on board of any vessel and if upon such
Inspection any such inspector shall be convinced
rotated he shall have power and 1t is hereby made
lis duty to arrest, immediately, such offender and
ustice of the peace in any county of the state or
,olice Justice of Baltimore City. who snail as
speedily aspessibla hear and dispose OF such case
md said inspectors snail be allowed no extra com
'ensation for conveyance boat help or other ordl-
lary expenses, except in cases of arrest where,
rom the nature of the case he may be required to
furnish means OF CONVEYANCE and other necessary
expenses for the safe conduct of the offender SO ar
ested, in which cases, upon presentation OF proper
vouchers, he shall be allowed only his actual ex-
and the Treasurer OF the state. on tile
warrant of the Comptroller. which the said Comp
roller is hereby directed to issue, is hereby di-
ected to pay said inspectors the amount or their
monthly salaries on the first day of each month
the month in which the service shall
AVE been performed, from the fund hereinafter
provided for. The said inspectors shall take and
ubscribe oath COR afirmationl, such as is com
monty required in positions of similar character,
md in the event OF failure to properly perform the
luties herein prescribed shall be deemed guilty OF
misdemeanor.
SEC % H. For the purpose of raising the reve-
Tue necessary to the requirements of this act tax
# ten cents per hundred of bushels OF oysters pur
chased by each and every packer, shipper ana
and tail dealer or dealers of any kind
n oysters is hereby levied on all such packers.
RS of any kind in oysters, who shall monthly make
! sworn statement of the quantity of oysters pur-
II the month succeeding the month in which such
purchases shall have been made, with the amount
II money due on account OF salu tax 70 lne lreas.
lrer of the and III default of said statement
md payment as herein provided. or in the event of
nvone ma king false oath for the default, the Of
ender shall be deemed guilty of misdeineanor,
md for ma king such false oath. in addition TO the
penalties herein imposed. shall be 1ndictable and
punishable as is now provided for the crime OF per-
ury.
SEC. 81. 1t shall be unlawful for any person OF
persons to take catch oysters to have oysters
n his or their possession between the twentieth
lay of April and the irst day OF September in each
md every year: provided that oysters caught be-
ore "a
It any time before the thrteth day of April; pro-
'fded that this section shall not prevent transpor
alton companies from carving oysters brought |
rom other states nor hotel and restaurant keepers
private persons from purchasing oysters outside
If the state of Maryland, shall IL be construed
o prevent any person from taking oysters for pr-
ate use or transpl.nting cultivating. not for
ale, at any time from his private beds within the |
fate Persons violating the provisions of this |
ection shall be deemed guilty Of a misdemeanor.
SEC. II y. Any person who shall violate any pro-
,isions of Sections twenty and twenty-onc A in. |
Of shnll h. ilenmed entity of mis-