Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-30

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as follows:
1872. The Conservation Commission of
Maryland is hereby authorized to select
and reserve for oyster conservation, as
provided in this subtitle, any portion or
portions of the natural beds, bars and
rocks of the Chesapeake Bay in dredger IS
area TO be replenished by transplanting
of small oysters, shells or other cultch, or
in other feasible manner which the Com
mission may deem best. The Commission
shall give notice of said reservation by
advertisement to be inserted once a week
for three successive weeks, in newspaper
published in Baltimore City, and in the
county where the reserved area is located,
which advertisement shall describe the
area reserved and give the date on which
the reservation takes effect, and shall
warn all persons not TO catch or disturb
/ oysters upon such reserved area until fur
Their notice from the Commission reopen
ing same for public use. Whenever in
the discretion of the Commission such re-
served area shall have been replenished,
but in no event later than three years
after the beginning of such reservation
it shall fix date for re-opening same TO
the public, and shall give notice thereof
by proper advertisement inserted as above
provided. Any person who shall catch or
disturb any oysters upon such reserved
areas between the date such reservation
begins and the date fixed by the Commits
sion for re-opening same, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be imprisoned for not less
than three months, nor more than one
year, in the discretion of the Court.
1873. Amy resident of the State eligible
to hold dredger s or scraper's license
may make application to the Conservation
Commission at its office in Baltimore for
a permit to catch and remove seed oysters,
at any time between March 18th and May
18th, or between September 18th and No
yember LIST, in each year, from any bot
toms not leased of the Chesapeake Bay or
tributaries in dredger s territory where
an abundance of small oysters may occur
which in the opinion of the Commission
would secure better results by being trans
planted. The Commission may issue
such permit, and shall describe therein
the particular portion of said bottoms
from which seed oysters are to be taken,
and shall fix the manner and the time for
catching same. The person holding such
permit shall transport all seed oysters
caught by him directly to such reserved
areas within the limits prescribed in Sec
ton 1872, as may be designated by the
Commission, and there transplant same in
the presence of deputy commander of
the State Fishery Force, whose duty it
shall be to see that such seed oysters are
transplanted in proper manner and up
on the designated areas. The deputy
commander shall thereupon issue a certif-
cate to the person so transplanting seed
oysters, which shall state as accurately
as possible the number of bushels trans
planted, and shall be serially numbered
and substantially in the form following
~.
l hereby certify that Captain. .......
of the vessel. ...........h has this day
transplanted upon reserved area located
at ............ cargo of seed oysters
estimated to contain. ....... bushels.
.,......,.........
Deputy Commander.
A duplicate of each certificate so issued
shall be forwarded by the deputy COM
mander to the Comptroller of the State
Treasury. The expense of catching, re-
moving and transplanting such seed oys-
/ tiers MS herein authorized shall be borne
by the person to whom such permit and
/ certificate shall have been issued, pro
vided, however, that such expense, to be
! determined by the Commission but not to
exceed ten cents per bushel, shall be re-
I imbursed to him, or his assigns, by the
/ Comptroller, upon the preservation and
surrender of his certificate, out of the
Conservation Fund provided for by
Section 135. The commander may act for
any deputy commander in the perform
ance of the duties above mentioned.
1874 From and after the date desig-
mated by the Commission for re-opening
of such reserved areas, until the closing
of the dredging season then current, oys-
! tiers shall be caught upon such reserved
areas only by dredgers, scrapers or tong
ers of the State holding licenses for the
current season, in the manner now pre-
scribed by law, and subject also to the
following special conditions and restric-
lions, viz:
~ Oysters caught upon reserved
areas shall be subject to a special charge
or tax to be fixed by the Commission and
to be announced in the advertisement re-
opening such area or areas, said charge
or tax to be not less than FIVE cents per
bushel, nor more than ten cents per
bushel, which tax shall be collected by
the buyers at the place where said oys-
tiers are to be no further shipped in bulk
in vessels, and shall be paid weekly to
the Comptroller or his agent by the
buyers, such tax to be in addition to
any other charge on oysters now or
hereafter imposed by law, and payment
thereof to be enforced in the same man