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on said boat held by a non-resident, directly or indirectly, and that the
said boat is not held and shall not be knowingly used with an inten-
tion to violate or evade provisions of this article, and such applicant
shall produce before the comptroller at the time of making such appli-
cation the certificate of the taking of such oath and the gross custom-
house tonnage, which gross tonnage the owner shall swear to, and shall
further make oath that before the measurement of said vessel by the
custom-house officers the said vessel was not dunnaged so as to evade the
just and proper measurement of tonnage of said vessel with a view of
evading a proper and just sum for the licensing of said vessel. The
master of such boat shall also make oath before the comptroller or his
clerk, or if a resident of Baltimore city before the clerk of the court
of common pleas, or before the clerk of the circuit court for the county
wherein he may reside, that he has been a resident of the State for the
twelve months next preceding the time of taking such oath. Any one
violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction before a judge of the criminal court of Baltimore city or a
judge of the circuit court for the county, or a justice of the peace hav-
ing jurisdiction, as the case may be, shall be fined a sum not less than
fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in
the house of correction for a period of not less than three months nor
more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the judge or justice
of the peace.

1904, art. 72, sec. 23. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 22. 1900, ch. 380. 1908, ch. 104.
1910, ch. 413, sec. 23 (p. 207).

24. 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 tho
applicant the said two dollars and eighty-five 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 measurements to be gross tonnage of custom-house measure-
ment, but no allowance or deduction shall be made or allowed by reason
of dunnaging, and the captain or masters shall always have such license
on board of their boats, and shall exhibit the same wherever 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 com-
mand, at any time that he or they shall deem it proper, to inspect and
verify the measurements of any boats, and their gross tonnage and the
measurement 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