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LAWS OF MARYLAND,

contrary to the provisions of this Act, he shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before
a justice of the peace or the Circuit Court for Dorchester
County shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars for
each and every offense, and stand committed until such fine
and costs are paid.

Managing
owner of boats
shall make
oath, etc.

256. The managing owner of such boats shall make oath or
affirmation before the clerk of said court that he is a bona fide
managing owner of such boat described in the license; that he
has been a resident of said county for the period of one year
next preceding the application; that the boat is owned wholly
by residents of said county; that there is no lien, interest or
claim on said boat held by a non-resident of Dorchester
County; that the said boat is no.t held with intention to vio-
late any provisions of this sub-title of this Article; that said
boat has been owned in whole by residents of said county the
six preceding months, if it is six months old, and the said
master of said boat shall also make oath before said clerk that
he has been a resident of said county for twelve "months next
preceding the time of taking said oath, and that he will com-
ply with all laws, general or local, regulating the catching of
oysters, and at the time of taking such oath he shall exhibit
to the clerk the custom-house license of the said boat, if five
tons or more gross tonnage, and also the certificates of the ad-
measurers of all boats whose gross tonnage, by the rules of
custom-house measurement, are, as shown by said custom-
house license, to be in ex,cess of six tons gross measurement.

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inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed so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 694.
AN ACT to incorporate the German- American Trust and
Guaranty Company of Baltimore City.

German-
American
Trust and
Guaranty Co.
of Baltimore
City.
Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Daniel W. Dwyer, Percy C. Hennighausen, Aaron
Friedenwald, William A. Bowen, William F. Ludwig and
Charles F. Stein, and their associates and successors, and all
other such persons as shall hereafter become stockholders in
the company hereby incorporated, shall be and they are
hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name