2250 ARTICLE 72.

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 tonnage 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 com-
mand, 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 measure-
ment ascertained by such officer shall be conclusive and final; any license
granted shall be corrected and amended in accordance with such measure-
ments and the appropriate license fee hereinbefore named paid in accor-
dance 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 in-
consistent with the provisions of this Section are hereby repealed.
As to the state fishery force, see sec. 36, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 25. 1904, sec. 24. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 23. 1922, ch. 519, sec. 25.

27. Any master or person in charge of any vessel who shall violate any
of the provisions of the preceding sections from 22 to 24, inclusive, by tak-
ing oysters unlawfully shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction before any justice of the peace or any court of competent juris-
diction, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hun-
dred dollars, or sentenced to the House of Correction for a term of not
less than three months nor more than one year, or be both fined and im-
prisoned in the discretion of the Court, and the boat or vessel used in such
violation, together with the papers, furniture and tackle on board of said
boat or vessel at the time of said violation, shall be forfeited, but shall be
released upon the payment of fine.

An. Code, sec. 26. 1904, sec. 25. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 24.

28. Upon information given under oath to any judge of the circuit
court or justice of the peace of any violation of any of the provisions of
this article, he shall issue his warrant to the sheriff or any constable requir-
ing any of them to whom it may be directed to summon a posse comitatus,
if necessary, and proceed forthwith to arrest the party or parties alleged
to have been engaged in the violation of this article and to seize and take
possession of any boat, canoe or vessel, together with all her tackle and
apparel on board of the same, and deliver the same to the judge of the cir-
cuit court or a justice of the peace of this State, to be dealt with according
to the provisions of this article; provided, that any justice of the peace be-