794 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

127.

This section if not void under the decision in Foote v. Claggett, 116 Md.
228, is rendered inoperative for all practical purposes by that decision.
And see Foote v. Stanley, 117 Md. 337 (reversed by the Supreme Court of
the United States—see Daily Record, March 7, 1914).

128.

This section if not void under the decision in Foote v. Claggett, 116 Md.
228, is rendered inoperative for all practical purposes by that decision.
And see Foote v. Stanley, 117 Md. 337 (reversed by the Supreme Court of
the United States—see Daily Record, March 7, 1914).

Reserved Areas.

1914, ch. 753.

132. The Commander of the State Fishery Force is hereby author-
ized to select and reserve for oyster conservation, as provided in this
sub-title, any portion or portions of the natural beds, bars and rocks
located along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, between the
lower end of Holland Point Bar Eock and Pungy Harbor Rock. The
Commander shall give notice of said reservation by advertisement, to-
be inserted once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper
published in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel County and Calvert Coun-
ty, respectively, which advertisement shall describe the area reserved
and give the date on which the reservation takes effect, and shall warn
nil persons not to catch or disturb oysters, upon such reserved area until
further notice from the Commander reopening same for public use.
Whenever in the discretion of the Commander such reserved area shall
have been replenished, but in no event later than three years after the
beginning of such reservation, he shall fix a date for reopening 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 Commander for reopening same, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be im-
prisoned in jail or in the House of Correction for not less than three
months, nor more than one year in the discretion of the Court.

1914, ch. 753.

133. Any resident of this State holding a dredger's or scraper's
license for the past season may make application to the Commander of
the State Fishery Force at his office in Annapolis for a permit to catch
and remove seed oysters, at any time between March 15th and April
30th, or between October 1st and October 25th, in each year, from any
bottoms, not leased, of the Chesapeake Bay north of a straight line
drawn from Bodkin Point on the Western Shore to the lower or south-
ernmost end of Hodges Bar Eock, not less than one mile and a half
above Swann Point, on the Eastern Shore. The Commander may issue
such permit, and shall describe therein the particular portion of said