1330 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 23

Public Local Laws, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

"172. The clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset
county upon the application of any person who has been
a resident of the county for six months and of the State
for twelve months immediately preceding his application,
and is a bona fide owner of the vessel to be used by him,
or upon a certificate of any justice of the peace of said
county, certifying to such application, shall issue to such
citizen a license authorizing him to catch or take oysters
with scoop, scrape or dredge in any waters of said
county not parcel of any creek, river, cove or inlet, which
license shall hold good for one oyster season only and
shall authorize the catching of oysters as aforesaid, be-
tween the 15th day of October, in any year and the 15th day
of April next succeeding, on which said last mentioned
day the said season shall close and end in said county, and
said license shall expire; but no vessels over ten and
one-half tons gross tonnage, ascertained by proper
custom house measurement, shall be authorized to be
used under any such license, and no vessel over ten
and one-half tons gross tonnage shall be used or employ-
ed in taking oysters in any waters of said county, and
the said license shall specify the canoe or vessel to be
used by the license, the number and name, and said citi-
zen shall pay for said license at the rate of two dollars
per ton for the vessel so employed; and the tonnage of
vessels and canoes to be licensed shall be ascertained by
custom house measurement, and no canoe or other vessel
shall employ in taking oysters with scrapes, scoops, drag
or dredge, in the waters of Somerset county unless the
owner thereof shall have first obtained a license therefor
as above provided, and any person having a license afore-
said for any vessel shall also provide a number on can-
vass to be prescribed and furnished by the Clerk of the
Circuit Court, of the same size as that required now or
hereafter by the State oyster law, in red figures, corres-
ponding with the number of his said license, and shall
affix the same securely to the mainsail but on the
opposite side thereof from that required by the
State law, and shall keep the said number in proper
position and plainly visible at all times while at work or
going to or from work during the dredging season, and