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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

may have been obtained, to the first day of June next

Proviso.

succeeding; provided, that such license shall not au-

thorize the use of said canoe or boat, in taking or

catching oysters in any creek, cove, river, inlet, bay,

or sound, within the limits of any county other than

that wherein the license shall have been granted, and

that the boundaries of counties bordering on navi-

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 con-

strued as to prevent the citizens of Calvert and St.

Mary's counties from using the waters of the Patux-

ent River in common, or the citizens of Queen Anne

and Kent from using the waters of the Chester River

in common, or the citizens of Dorchester and Wico-

mico from using the waters of the Nanticoke in com-

mon, or the citizens of Queen Anne and Talbot from

using the waters of Wye River and the mouth thereof

in common.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That each and every li-

License to state

cense to take or catch oysters, for sale, with rakes or

tongs, shall state the name and residence of the per-

son to whom the same is to be granted, the number

together with the length, to be obtained by top or

over all measurement of the canoe or boat licensed,

the county in which the same is to be used, and the

period at which said license will expire, and every

applicant for such license shall pay to the clerk of

the court, where such license may be granted, and

before the issuing and delivery of the same, accord-

Fee for

ing to the following rates, viz : for any boat measur-

ing in length twenty feet or less, the sum of two dollars,

measuring from twenty to twenty-five feet, the sum

of three dollars, measuring from twenty-five to thirty

feet the sum of four dollars, and all over thirty feet,

including sloops under Custom-House tonnage, the

sum of tive dollars each; and all oysters taken with

rakes or tongs shall be culled upon the natural beds

where they are taken; the amount received from

tonging license to be paid by the clerk to the school

commissioners for the public schools of the respective

counties where such license is issued ; provided the

sum received from white tongers shall go to white

schools, and the sum from colored tongers to the

colored schools.