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Proceedings of the Senate, 1900
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1390 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apr. 2

and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as fol-
lows:

"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 only
authorize the catching of oysters as aforesaid, between
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 vessel 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 he used or employed in taking oysters
in any waters of said county, and the said license shall
specify the canoe or vessel to be used by the licensee, the
number and name, and said citizen -shall pay for said license
at the rate of two dollars per ton for the vessel so em-
ployed; and the tonnage of, vessels and canoes, to be
liee used, shall be ascertained by Custom House measure-
ment; and no canoe or other vessel shall be employed in
taking oysters with scrapes, scoops, drag or dredge, in
the waters o,f Somerset county, unless the owner thereof
shall have first obtained a license therefor as above pro-
vided, and any person having a license aforesaid for any
vessel, shall also provide a number on. canvass to be pre-
scribed 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, corresponding with the
number of' his license, and shall affix the same securely
to the mainsail, but on the opposite side thereof from
that required by the State law, aud shall keep the
said number in proper position a-nd plainly visible
at all times while at work or going to or from
work during the dredging season, and the pro-


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