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gable waters shall be strictly construed so as not to permit
the residents of either county to take or catch oysters
beyond the middle of the dividing channel; provided, that
nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent:
the citizens of Queen Anne's and Kent Counties from using
the waters of Chester river in common, or the citizen of
Dorchester and Wicomico Counties from using the waters
of Nanticoke river in common, or the citizens of Queen
Anne's and Talbot Counties from using the waters of the
Wye river and the mouth thereof in common, or the citi-
zens of Dorchester and Talbot Counties from using the
waters of the Choptank river in common; provided, how-
ever, that the County Commissioners shall be authorized to
give special permission to any woman who has no visible
means of support to take and catch oysters without license,
and provided also that boys under fifteen years of age shall
not be required to license. '
2. Each and every license issued in conformity to the pro-
visions of Section one of this Article shall state the name, color,
age and residence of the person to whom the license is to be
granted; the number thereof and the county in which the same
is to be used, and every applicant for such license shall pay to
the Clerk of the Circuit Court when such license may be
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Shall not
prevent citi-
zens of speci-
fied counties
from using the
waters of
certain rivers.
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granted, and before the issuing and delivery of the same, three
and one-half dollars, except boys under fifteen years of age;
the clerk to receive twenty-five cents for each and every such
license, as a fee for issuing the same, including administering
the oath when required. Two-thirds of the amount received
for such licenses shall be paid by the clerk to the School Com-
missioners for the use of the public schools in the respective
counties where such licenses are issued, and of this amount
the portion received from white tongers to go to the white
schools, and the portion received from colored tongers to go
to the colored schools, and the remaining one-third to be paid
over by the clerk to the Comptroller of the State Treasury to
be credited to the oyster fund.
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License fee.
and disposition
of same.
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3. Every applicant for license as aforesaid shall be required
to make oath or affirmation before the clerk authorized to
issue the same, or some justice of the peace, on whose certifi-
cate of the taking of such oath or affirmation the clerk shall
issue said license; that the facts set forth therein are strictly
true; that he has been a bona fide resident of the county for
twelve months next preceding his application for said license;
that he desires and intends to use said license in the county
An which he resides or the waters used in common, as pro-
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Applicants for
license shall
make oath.
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