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ter and Talbot counties shall be paid to the sheriff or any
constable of said counties, respectively, and by him or
them be paid monthly to the county commissioners, and
said county commissioners are authorized to use such
money together with the sums received for said licenses,
which sums the clerks of said courts are directed to pay
over monthly to the county commissioners of their res-
pective counties, after deducting therefrom his usual fees
for issuing license, in providing police officers for the
proper enforcement of the provisions of this sub-title of
these respective Articles, and in case any surplus remains
at the end of the fiscal year of the said counties, it shall
be placed to the credit of the school fund of the county
wherein such fines and forfeitures were imposed. "

"249 and 160. The Comptroller shall before the first
day of October, in each year, furnish the Clerk of the
Circuit Courts for Dorchester and Talbot counties, re-
spectively, two hundred licenses each to be issued by
said clerks with the descriptions in said license of the
boat and crew, the number of the boat and the name of
the person obtaining the license; the said Comptroller
shall also furnish to said clerks four hundred duplicate
numbers, each painted on canvas; the numbers on the
licenses and on the canvas shall correspond for each
county, and the licenses for Talbot county shall be
numbered from one to two hundred, and those for
Dorchester shall be numbered from 201 to 400, and at
the time of issuing said licenses the clerks respec-
tively shall issue two of the canvas numbers to cor-
respond with the numbers of the licenses, and the
numbers on said canvas numbers shall be orange color,
seven inches long, and they shall be securely fastened
by the captain or managing owner of such boats, one on
the starboard side of the jib and one on the port side of
the mainsail; the said owners shall also have said num-
bers painted on each side of the bow of such boat in
black figures on a white ground, and at least five inches
long.

" In event that either of said clerks shall have demand
for more licenses and numbers than herein provided for,
he shall make requisition on the Comptroller for such
number as is required, and the said Comptroller shall
furnish the same.