Chap. 360.—An ACT Amending and Re-enacting the Second Section of an
Act entitled an Act to Protect the Oyster Beds in the Waters of the Com-
monwealth, approved July 11, 1870.

Approved October 31, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the second
section of an act entitled an act to protect the oyster beds in
the waters of the commonwealth, approved July eleventh,
eighteen hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

““§ 2. No person, other than a resident citizen of this state,
shall catch terrapins or clams, catch, take or plant oysters in
the waters thereof, or in the rivers Pocomoke or Potomac;
and if any person, other than such citizen of this state, shall
catch terrapins or clams, catch, take or plant oysters in the
waters thereof, or in the rivers Pocomoke or Potomac, he
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion, he shall be fined five hundred dollars, and the vessel,
tackle, and appurtenances so employed, shall be forfeited to
the commonwealth, and at the discretion of the court, he may
be imprisoned not more than six months; and any non-resident
shall be deemed to have violated this section who shall allow
oysters purchased by him for sale, and laid out in said waters
until he has purchased his cargo, to remain so laid out more
than ninety days; but this shall not extend to a citizen of
Maryland taking oysters in the two above named rivers. -But
this section shall not be construed to give to citizens of Mary-
land the right to catch, take or plant oysters in any creek,
cove, or inlet, tributary to said rivers.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.