J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1319

Talbot County it shall also be unlawful to take or catch, or attempt
to take or catch, soft shell clams by hydraulic or mechanical dredge,
or by any other means:

(1)  Within 50 yards of any commercially productive oyster tong-
ing area defined on the charts of the Commission of Tidewater
Fisheries, or as defined under Section 696 (i) of this Article, or

(2)  Within 500 yards of any occupied duck blind, where decoys are
set out, during the legal duck hunting season, or

(3)  Within 150 feet of any bulkhead, wharf, pier, structure or
appurtenance constructed or erected in, out in, over or under any
of the waters of this State [under or by permit of the Corps of Engi-
neers, Department of the Army], or

(4)   Within 1000 feet of any public bathing beach during the
months of May, June, July, August and September of any year, or

(5)  Within 100 yards of any private bathing beaches, during the
months of May, June, July, August and September; provided that
the private bathing beaches shall be staked and marked by the
owners thereof upon which shall be lettered "bathing beach" of a
readily discernible size, or as may be required by any rule or regu-
lation of the Commission of Tidewater Fisheries; provided, however,
that the linear measurement along the shore line shall not exceed a
distance of 100 yards for each landowner, or

(6)  In front of the Town of Oxford between the mean high water
mark and the center of the channel of the Tred Avon River and
Town Creek except during the months of October and November, or

(7)  On Sunday, or between sunset and one-half hour after sunrise
on any other day, or to land soft shell clams before sunrise or later
than one (1) hour after sunset, or

(8)  Within 50 feet of the mean low water mark of any shore line.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 28, 1959.

CHAPTER 794
(House Bill 715)

AN ACT to repeal Section 37(s) of Article 87 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Sheriffs", sub-title "Com-
pensation and Duties", and to enact a new Section 37(s) thereof,
to stand in the place and stead of the section so repealed, and to
repeal Section 395, and to repeal and re-enact, with amendments,

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.