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tion 23, of this Article, to the person so convicted shall be revoked for the
remainder of the season for which said license was issued.

All Deputy Commanders and Inspectors of the State Fishery Patrol are
hereby authorized, directed and empowered to make an inspection of all
boats and vessels engaged in the catching of oysters, for the purpose of as-
certaining whether such boat or vessel is equipped or has on board any
scoop, dredge, scrape or similar instrument which Joes not comply with the
provisions of this Section. ¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 26. 1912, sec. 24. 1904, 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. 1927, ch. 145.

26. After granting such license, the Comptroller shall receive three
dollars and fifty cents for every gross ton the boat shall measure, except
boats of less than four tons gross measurement, when the license shall be
eleven dollars and fifty cents 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 two dollars and
fifty 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 eleven
dollars and fifty cents 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 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 measurements 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-half of any license fee received by the¹ 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 27. 1912, sec. 25. 1904, sec. 24. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 23.
1922, ch. 519, sec. 25. 1927, ch. 127, sec. 27.

27. Any master or person in charge of any vessel who shall violate any
of the provisions of Sections 22 and 24, by taking oysters unlawfully shall
bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction before any Jus-
tice of the Peace or any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 475 of acts of 1927 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of inconsistency.