JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

cate certificate to the master or managing owner of said boat
to be by him produced for comparison to the clerk aforesaid
at the time of applying for license. If upon examination and
measurement the admeasurers are satisfied that the previous
measurement by the custom official is incorrect and that said
boat is a 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 conclu-

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sive. Provided, however, that no certificate shall be required
to procure a license for any boat whose tonnage does not
exceed six tons, gross custom-house measurement, but should
a license be issued to such boat, which afterwards on meas-
urements by the admeasurers is shown to be of greater ton-
nage than permitted or allowed under the provisions of this
Act, such license shall be null and void, and the party using
such license, after notice given, shall be deemed guilty of tak-
ing oysters without a license and shall be punished as is pro-
vided 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 provided
for, the clerk shall issue to the said applicants a license for
said boat, if all other requirements and conditions 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inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed so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.

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 676.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Harford
County to grant a pension to James Bennington, of said
county .

Proviso.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Harford County are
hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to grant
an annual pension of eighty dollars to James Bennington, of
said county, during the natural life of said James Bennington;
to levy said sum on the assessable property of said county.

Harford Co
Commission'rs
Authority to
pension James
Bennington.