ART. 72] POTOMAC. 775

police boat, for each boat or vessel to be used in carrying said oysters
as aforesaid, and shall state the name and tonnage (if registered in the
custom house) of the boat or vessel, the name of the owner and the
master thereof, and to what waters in Maryland or Virginia such cargo
of oysters is to be carried. Before such permit shall be granted the
owner or master of such boat or vessel shall take and subscribe to an
oath before said officer that the said boat or vessel will not be used for
carrying said oysters to any State other than Maryland or Virginia, or
for any other purpose than for planting the same in the waters of one
or the other of the said States, and that he will not sell said oysters to
any other person for the purpose of carrying the same to any State
other than Maryland or Virginia. The oath so taken and subscribed,
together with a memorandum of the permit issued, shall be returned
by said officer to the commander of the State Fishery Force of Mary-
land, if said officer be a Maryland official, or to the secretary of the
Commission of Fisheries of Virginia, if said officer be a Virginia
official, to be filed by him in his office. Blank forms for such oath and
permit shall be furnished to the respective oyster inspectors, and the
respective captains of the oyster police boats, by the Comptroller of
Maryland and the Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia. For ad-
ministering said oath and issuing said permit, the inspector or officer
issuing' same shall be entitled to receive from the applicant a fee of
twenty-five cents. The owner or master of any boat or vessel fouiid
carrying or buying such seed oysters without such permit shall be fined
not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. And
any owner or master of any boat or vessel violating the provisions of
this section by buying or carrying or knowingly selling such seed
oysters to be carried elsewhere, or for any other purpose than to be
planted in the waters of Maryland or Virginia, shall be fined not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and in
addition thereto the boat or vessel so used shall, with its cargo and
equipment, be forfeited to the State wherein such offender is convicted;
provided, no permit shall be granted to any person engaged in taking
or catching, buying or carrying seed oysters or having in his possession
oysters measuring less than two and one-half inches from hinge to
mouth, who shall have any scoop, scrape or dredge or any part thereof,
on any boat or vessel to be used in taking, buying or carrying seed
oysters, and it shall be the duty of the officer who issues said permit
to first inspect said boat or vessel and satisfy himself that no such
appliance is on said boat or vessel before he issues any permit; and
any person who shall have any scoop, scrape or dredge, or any part
thereof, on any boat or vessel engaged in catching buying or carrying
seed oysters or oysters measuring less than two and one-half inches
from hinge to mouth, and any owner or master of any boat or vessel
violating the provisions of this section by having any scrape, scoop or
dredge or any part thereof on any boat Or vessel engaged in taking,
catching, buying or carrying seed oysters shall be fined not less than