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or under 10 and 52-100 tons gross, if such last mentioned
boat was licensed Lo take oysters with scoop, scrape or
dredge in said waters for the season ending March 15th,
1900, and no dunnage in any of said boats, they shall
"under oath. so certify to the clerk of the court
of the county to which application for license is to be
made giving the tonnage of such boat, and shall also
give a duplicate certificate to the master or managing
owner of said boat, to be by him produced for compari-
son, to the clerk aforesaid at the time of applying for
license. If upon examination and measurement the ad-
measurers are satisfied that the previous measurement
made by the custom officials is incorrect and that said
bort is of greater tonnage than that which entitles the
same to be used in taking and catching oysters in said
waters, as herein provided, then such measurement, so
made by them, shall be deemed for the purpose of this
Act to be the true measurement of said boat, and their
decision shall be conclusive; provided, however, that no
certificate shall be required to procure a license for any
boat whose tonnage does not exceed six ton gross
custom house measurement, but should a license be
issued to such boat, which afterwards on measure-
ment by the admeasurers is shown to be of great-
er tonnage than permitted or allowed under the pro-
visions of this Act, such license shall be null and
void and the party using said license after notice given
shall be deemed guilty of taking oysters without a li-
cense and shall be punished as is provided by Article 72
of the Code of Public General Laws for that offense.
After the certificate of the admeasurers shall be filed
with the respective clerks and the applicant shall present
to such clerk the duplicate certificate hereinbefore pro-
vided for, the clerks shall issue to the said applicants a
license for said boat if all other requirements and condi-
tions aforesaid herein provided shall be complied with.

"Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage, and that all Acts or
parts of Acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are
hereby repealed so far as thus inconsistent. "

Which was adopted, and

The bill read second time and ordered to be en-
grossed for a third reading.