ART. 72] OYSTERS. 771

Dredging.

1904, art. 72, sec. 23. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 22. 1900, ch. 380. 1908, ch. 104.
1910, ch. 413, sec. 23 (p. 207). 1912, ch. 804. 1914, ch. 691.

24. After granting such license, the Comptroller shall receive two
dollars and eighty-five cents for every gross ton the boat shall measure,
except boats of less than four tons gross measurement, when the license
shall be eight dollars for each of said boats, 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 measurement to be gross ton-
nage of custom house measurement; but no allowance or deduction
shall be made or allowed by reason of dunnaging, and the captain or
master 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 command, at any time 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; 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with the provisions of this Section are hereby repealed.
As to the state fishery force, see section 34, et seq.

Oyster Fund.
31.

This section referred to in construing section 70—see notes thereto.
Foote v. Stanley (U, S. Supreme Court), Daily Record, March 7, 1914.

State Fishery Force.
39.*

Patuxent—Potomac—Choptank.

55.f

*The act of 1914, chapter 616, authorizes the Board of Public Works to build
or buy a guard boat for Herring Bay.

+The act of 1912, chapter 603, regulated the catching of oysters in the Patux-
ent River and its tributaries within Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's Counties,
and repealed the act of 1904, chapter 522, in so far as it related to the said
river and its tributaries in said counties.