Chap. 401.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 4 and 7 of section 3299
of the Code of Virginia, sub-section 4 of which was amended and re-enacted
by an act approved March 17, 1922, which section is in chapter 129 of the said
Code on the subject of Potomac river statutes. {S B 417]

Approved March 20, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
sections four and seven of section thirty-two hundred and ninety-nine
of the Code of Virginia, subsection four of which was amended and
re-enacted by an act approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3299. Subsection 4. It shall be lawful between the first
day of October and the twenty-fifth day of April of each year and at
no other time, to take oysters with ordinary or patent tongs, and in no
other manner, from the natural rocks, beds and shoals in the Potomac
river above a straight line drawn from North point at the mouth of
upper Machadoc creek in the county of King George, Virginia, to lower
Cedar Point in Charles county, Maryland. Any citizen of Maryland
or of Virginia, who has complied with all the requirements of the
oyster laws of his State entitling him to the privilege for a certain
period of taking and catching oysters with ordinary or patent tongs
in such State, shall have the mnght without further license tax to take
oysters with such tongs above the said line during the open season
provided for in the waters above said line.

It shall be unlawful to dredge or scrape on the natural rocks, beds
and shoals of the Potomac river at any time with any boat propelled
other than by sail, or with a power boat from which the shaft and pro-
peller have not been withdrawn, and the penalties otherwise prescribed
for unlawful dredging shall be imposed under this section for any
violation of this act.

Section 3299. Subsection 7. All offenses committed against the
provisions of this act by any person, may be punished by any of the
magistrates or courts of either State having criminal jurisdiction.
The authorities of either State shall have the right to examine into
the right of any person taking fish, oysters or crabs in the Potomac
river, or having same in his possession; and any person taking fish,
oysters or crabs in the Potomac river or having same in his possession
shall exhibit his authority for so doing, whenever required by the
police or other legal authority of either State. The legal authorities
of either State shall have the right to arrest any such offender, and,
if necessary in order to arrest, shall pursue such offender beyond the
boundary line of either State upon navigable waters and arrest such
offender whenever found upon such waters.

2. And be it further enacted, that upon the taking effect in the
State of Maryland of the provisions prescribed in the foregoing sub-
sections, as amended, the governor of Virginia shall issue his proclama-
tion declaring the provisions of the said subsections to be effective.