ART. 22.] WORCESTER COUNTY. 951

the recommendation of not less than twelve respectable free-
holders of the neighborhood in which such negro proposes to
carry on business.

74. No license to any free negro shall authorize the sale of
ardent spirits.

75. The said clerk shall not grant a license for any purpose of
trade to any white person who may be in partnership with any
free negro, nor shall any white person employ any free negro as
a clerk in any mercantile business, under a penalty of five hun-
dred dollars for each offence, to be recovered as other fines and
forfeitures.

76. The citizens of Newark, in said county, may biennially, on
the first Saturday in March, elect one police or patrol officer, who
shall have full power to summons men to disperse gatherings of
free negroes in said town, and exercise all the patrol duties in
said town that are discharged by the constables of the county.

77. Such election shall be held by one justice of the peace, and
the person elected shall receive such compensation as shall be
fixed by the commissioners of said town.

ORPHANS' COURT.

78. Each of the judges of the Orphan's Court for said county
shall be entitled to two dollars a day for each day they shall be
in session, and five cents a mile mileage for going to and return-
ing from each session of said court.

OYSTERS.

79. It shall be lawful for any citizen of Worcester county to
lay or plant out oysters, clams or other shell fish within the
limits of said county.

80. Any person so planting oysters, clams or shell fish, may
stake off for his use and benefit not to exceed one acre, which
shall be his bona fide property, to him, his heirs or assigns, for
the space of five years from the date thereof.

81. The person so staking off a claim shall have a survey made
by the county surveyor, who shall give a certificate of the same,