DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2323

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10. sec. 249. 1878, ch. 359. 1000, ch. 674, sec. 249.

419. The Comptroller shall, before the first day of October in each
year, furnish the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Dorchester and Talbot
Counties, respectively, two hundred licenses, each to be issued by said
clerks, with the descriptions in said license of the boat and crew, the
number of the boat and the name of the person obtaining the license.
The said Comptroller shall also furnish to said clerks four hundred dupli-
cate numbers, each painted on canvas, the numbers on the licenses and
the canvas shall correspond for each county, and the licenses for Talbot
County shall be numbered from one to two hundred, and those for Dor-
chester shall be numbered from two hundred and one to four hundred,
and at the time of issuing said licenses the clerks, respectively, shall issue
two of the canvas numbers to correspond to the numbers of the licenses,
and the numbers on said canvas numbers shall be orange color, seven
inches long, and they shall be securely fastened by the captain or man-
aging owner of such boats, one on the starboard side of the jib and one
on the port side of the mainsail. The said owners shall also have the
said numbers painted on each side the bow of such boat in black figures
on a white ground, and at least five inches long.

In event that either of said clerks shall have demand for more licenses

and numbers than herein provided for, he shall make requisition on the
Comptroller as required, and the said Comptroller shall furnish the same.

T. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 250. 1878, ch. 359. 1900, ch. 674, sec. 250. 1904. ch. 562.

420. Any master or person in charge of any boat who shall violate any

of the provisions of this subtitle of said Article relating to the catching
of oysters in the Choptank River shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, on conviction before any justice of the peace or Judge of the Circuit
Court of either of said counties, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more
than three hundred dollars, and stand committed until said fine and costs
are paid.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 251. 1878, ch. 359. 1900, ch. 674, sec. 251.
1902, ch. 180, sec. 251.

421. It shall not be lawful for any dumaged boat, canoe or vessel to be
employed to catch oysters with scoop, scrape or dredge in the waters in
common between Dorchester and Talbot Counties, and all timbers more
than five and one-half inches in depth used in the construction of said
boat, to which her bottom is fastened or any and all other materials used
to make the space between the ceiling and bottom planks over five and
one-half inches, and all ceiling over two inches thick, and any or all mate-
rials used between such ceiling and deck decreasing custom-house tonnage,
shall be considered dunnage. The Governor of this State shall, on or be-
fore the first day of July in each year, appoint two competent persons,
one from Dorchester County and one from Talbot County, to be known,
as admeasurers, to examine and measure all boats in the counties of Tal-

*Sec. 2, ch. 562, 1904. repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.