DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2321

dollars for said license, which shall be good for one season only, and shall
only authorize the catching of oysters between the first day of November
and the fifteenth day of March next succeeding; and until such license is
obtained, it shall be unlawful to use or employ any vessel in taking or
catching any oysters, as hereinbefore described; provided, that the waters
of Talbot County, lying between Black Walnut Point and a line drawn
from the southwest corner of Second Kent Point to Wales Point, except
the waters between Poplar Island and the mainland, lying within a
straight line drawn from Pawpaw Point on Tilghman's Island to the
southwesternmost point on Poplar Island and by a straight line drawn
from Lowe's Point on the mainland to Bloody Point Lighthouse (this
line is only to apply to the east or inside of North Point Beach) which are
reserved for the taking or catching of oysters with tongs worked exclu-
sively by hand, shall be open to the citizens of Talbot County licensed
under this section; but it shall be unlawful to take or catch oysters with
scrapes, scoops or dredge in any other waters of Talbot County, provided
further that the said clerks of the said courts, as aforesaid, upon applica-
tion of any owner a resident for one year in either of said counties and
to no other person, of a boat of the size of ten and fifty-two one-hundredths
tons gross or under, which was licensed to take oysters, as aforesaid, with
scoop, scrape or dredge in said waters for the dredging season ending
March the fifteenth, 1916, be and they are hereby authorized and directed
upon a certificate of the admeasurer hereinafter referred to, and provided
for, and upon full compliance with the provisions for the issuing of
license hereinafter referred to, to issue a license for the use of said
boat in taking oysters in the waters aforesaid, in the manner aforesaid;
but no license shall be issued to any boats so licensed for said dredging

season ending on March 15, 1916, the tonnage of which is greater than
ten and fifty-two hundredths gross tons by rules of custom-house measure-
ment, to be ascertained by said admeasurer, and if either of the clerks
authorized by this Act to issue such license shall issue the same without
the said admeasurer's certificate, when such certificate is necessary or
contrary to the provisions of this Act, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, or
either of said courts having jurisdiction thereof, shall be fined not less
than one hundred dollars for each and every offense, and stand committed
until such fine and costs are paid.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10. sec. 245. 1S78, ch. 359. 1900, ch. 674, sec. 245.

415. The managing owner of such boats shall make oath or affirmation

before the clerk that he is a bona fide managing owner of such boats

described in the license; that he has been a resident of said county for

the time before named; that the boat is owned wholly by residents of said

county; that there is no lieu, interest or claim on said boats held by non-
residents of Dorchester or Talbot County, respectively, as the case may
be; that the said boat is not held with intention to violate any of the
provisions of the sub-title of these Articles: that said boat lias been