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to the school commissioners for the use of the public schools in the respec-
tive counties where such licenses are issued, and of this amount the portion
received from white tongers to go to the white schools, and the portion
received from the colored tongers to go to the colored schools, and the re-
maining one-half to be paid over by the clerk to the Comptroller of the
State Treasury, to be credited to the oyster fund; and one-half of the
amount received from any tonging license in any county in this State
shall be paid by the clerk of the circuit court of the county when received
to the comptroller of the treasury to be credited to the oyster fund, any
provisions of any public local law or public general law to the contrary
notwithstanding.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 5. 1912, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 5. 1924, ch. 564.

1927, ch. 127, sec. 5.

5. If any person shall take oysters with rakes or tongs, for sale, without
first having obtained a license as required by the preceding sections of this
Article, he shall upon conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace for
the county wherein the offense has been committed be fined not less than
twenty nor more than one hundred dollars and stand committed to the
county jail till all costs and fines are paid. It shall be unlawful for any
person taking oysters with rakes or tongs, for sale or otherwise, to use or
have in his possession on any motor beat, any scrape, dredge or other de-
vice, and the possession of any such scrape, dredge or other device on any
motor beat which may be used in the taking and catching of oysters, shall,
and is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and the party upon conviction
thereof before a Justice of the Peace for the county wherein the offense or
violation occurred, or has been committed, shall be fined not less than the
sum of two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or shall
be sentenced to confinement in the House of Correction for a term of not
less than six months; and in any such case the boat or vessel used by him
shall be forfeited, and may be condemned, in the discretion of the judge
or justice of the peace, in the manner provided in Section 31. All per-
sons taking or catching oysters under the provisions of this Article shall
exhibit their authority for so doing when required by any oyster police
force, or other officers of the State.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 6. 1898, ch. 117.
1900, ch. 99. 1914, ch. 284. 1922, ch. 519, sec. 6. 1927, ch. 127, sec. 6

1929, ch. 516.

6. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons who have obtained a
license to take or catch oysters with rakes or tongs to take or catch oysters
in the waters of Queen Anne's, Talbot, Anna Arundel and Dorchester
Counties, or in the waters of Kent County, exclusive of Swan Point Bar
and the bar known as Lighthouse Lump northeast of Love Point Light
House, or within one and a half miles of Sandy Point, Hackett's Point,
Thomas' Point, Holland's Island Bar and Three Sisters and Holland's
Point Bar with any implement or device other than ordinary rakes or tongs
with wooden shafts, to be used entirely by hand, and without any ropes