ART. 39] CHESAPEAKE BAY. 1037

haul seines or other contrivances, except hook and line, within the
waters of the Chesapeake bay, below Pool's island, and within the
jurisdictional limits of the State of Maryland, shall first obtain by
application to the clerk of the circuit court for the county wherein
he may reside, or the clerk of the court of common pleas of Baltimore
city, a license therefor, and such license shall have effect from the first
day of February, in the year in which it may have been obtained, to
the first day of February, inclusive, next succeeding; and provided
further, that such license shall not authorize the taking or catching of
fish, except with hook and line, within the jurisdictional limits of any
county or counties in this State.

1904, art. 39, sec. 102. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 91.

111. Each and every license to take or catch fish for Sale under the
provisions of section 110, shall state the name, age and residence of
the person to whom the same is to be granted, and every applicant
for such license shall pay to the clerk of the circuit court for the county
or the clerk of the court of common pleas of Baltimore city, when such
license shall be granted and before the delivery of the same, the sum of
five dollars; the clerk to receive the sum of twenty-five cents for each
and every license so issued, as a fee for issuing the same, including the
administering of the oath when required; and the said amount of
license received for issuing same shall be paid over by the clerk into the
treasury of the State of Maryland, to be credited to the ''Oyster Fund."
As to the oyster fund, see art. 72, sec. 31.

Ibid. sec. 103. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 92.

112. Every applicant for license to take or catch fish for sale, under
the provisions of this article, shall be required to make oath or affirma-
tion before the clerk authorized to issue the same, or before some justice
of the peace, on whose certificate of the taking of such oath or affirma-
tion, the clerk shall issue said license, that "the facts set forth in said
license are strictly true; that he has been a bona fide resident of the
State of Maryland for the twelve months next preceding his application
for said license, and that no non-resident of the State of Maryland is
either directly or indirectly interested in the use of said pound net,
fyke or haul seine or other contrivance used in taking fish for sale, or
any boat or vessel used in the prosecution of said fishing, or pound nets,
fykes, haul seines, or other contrivances in the taking or catching of fish
for sale."

Ibid. sec. 104. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 93.

113. The comptroller of the treasury shall cause to be printed and
delivered to the clerks of the circuit courts for the several counties
the requisite number of such blank licenses, and take receipt for the
same, and for other licenses furnished; and said clerks shall on the
first Monday in July and December, of each year, return to the comp-
troller a list and account of such licenses issued by them and at the