2324 ARTICLE 10.

bot and Dorchester, for which they are respectively appointed, over six
tons gross or smaller boats, if. in the judgment of said admeasurers they
have reason to believe such boats have been incorrectly measured prior to
the granting, by the clerks of said circuit courts, a license to catch oysters
with scoop, scrape or dredge, and the: said admeasurers acting together
in the presence of each other, shall as soon as notified, and paid two dol-
lars each for each boat and traveling expenses, and the cost of certificate
by the captain or managing owner of such boats shall proceed to exam-
ine and measure the same; if, after examining and measuring such boat,
the admeasurer finds that such boat is under seven tons gross or under
ten and fifty-two one-hundredths tons gross, and if such last-mentioned
boat was licensed to take oysters with scoop, scrape or dredge on said
waters for the season ending March 15, 1900, and no dunnage in any of
said boats, each of said admeasurers shall, under oath, so certify to the
clerk of the court of the county to which application for license is to be
made, giving the tonnage of such boats, and shall also give a duplicate-
certificate to the master or managing owner of said boat to be by him
produced for comparison to the clerk, aforesaid, at the time of applying
for license. It shall be the duty of the Commander of the State Fishery
Force or any officer under his command, whom he shall duly authorize and
empower at any time that he or such duly authorized officer shall deem
it proper to inspect and verify the measurement of any boats and their
gross tonnage, and the measurement ascertained by the said commander
or officers shall be conclusive and final, and any license granted shall be
corrected and amended in accordance with such measurement, and the
appropriate license fee hereinbefore named, paid in accordance with such
corrected measurement and the right granted by any such license already
issued shall be suspended until the full payment of such license fee is
made; provided, however, that no certificate shall be required to procure
a license for any boat whose tonnage does not exceed six tons gross, cus-
tom-house measurement; but should a license be issued to such boat, which
afterwards, on measurements by the admeasurers or said commander or his
duly authorized officer as aforesaid, is shown to be of greater tonnage
than permitted or allowed under the provisions of this Act, such license
shall be null and void, and the party using such license, after notice
given, shall be deemed guilty of taking oysters without a license, and
shall be punished as is provided by Article 72 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws for that offense; after the certificate of the admeasurers shall
be filed with the respective clerks, and the applicant shall present to such
clerk the duplicate certificate hereinbefore provided for, the clerk shall
issue to the said applicants a license for said boat, if all other require-
ments and conditions aforesaid herein provided shall be complied with.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 252. 1878, ch. 359.

422. Any resident of Dorchester or Talbot Counties desiring to use any
canoe or other boat in catching or taking oysters for sale, with rakes or

*Sec. 2, ch. 180, 1902, repealed all laws Inconsistent therewith.