LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1569

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 23 of Article 72 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of the State of Maryland, title "Oysters," as
amended by Chapter 413 of the Acts of 1910, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to
read as follows:

23. After granting such license the Comptroller shall
receive two dollars and eighty-five cents for every gross ton the
boat shall measure, and where any license issued by authority
of any county the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county
shall receive for such license from the applicant one dollar and
ninety cents per ton for every gross ton the boat may measure,
except boats of less than five tons gross measurement, when the
license shall be eight dollars for each of said boats, said measurer
ments to be gross tonnage of custom house measurement, but no
allowance or deduction shall be made or allowed by reason of
dunn aging, and the captains or masters shall always have such
license on board of their boats, and shall exhibit the same wher-
ever it shall be demanded by any duly authorized officer. It
shall be the duty of the commander of the State Fishery Force
and any officer under his command, at any time that he or
they shall deem it proper, to inspect and verify the measure-
ments of any boats, and their gross tonnage and the measure-
ment ascertained by such officer shall be conclusive and final;
and any license granted shall be corrected and amended in
accordance with such measurements, and the appropriate
license fee hereinbefore named paid in accordance with such
corrected measurement, and the right granted by any license
already issued shall be suspended until the full payment of such
license fee is made. And one-third of any license fee received
by the clerk of the Circuit Court for any county in this State
shall be paid to the Comptroller of the State Treasury by the
said clerk within ninety days after receiving the same, to be by
the said Comptroller credited to the Oyster Fund, and all acts
and all public general or public local laws inconsistent with the
provisions of this section be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 805.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 3, Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws, title "Baltimore County," sub-title "Health,"
to follow section 187 of said Article 3, and to be designated

as section 187A.
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