2326 ARTICLE 10.

such ceiling and deck decreasing custom-house tonnage shall be considered
dunnage, and the admeasurer to be appointed by the Governor as herein-
before in Section 421 of this Article provided, shall examine and measure
all boats over six tons gross (custom-house measurement) or smaller boats,
if in their judgment they have reason to believe that such boats have been
incorrectly measured prior to the granting by the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Dorchester County a license to catch oysters with scoops or

dredges, and the said admeasurer acting together and in the presence of
each other shall as soon as notified and paid two dollars each for each
boat and traveling expenses and cost of certificate by the captain or man-
aging owner of such boats, proceed to measure and examine the same;
if after examining and measuring such boat or boats, the admeasurers find
that such boat is under seven tons gross or under ten and fifty-two one-
hundredths tons gross, if such boat was licensed to take oysters with
scoops, scrapes or dredges in said waters for the season ending March 15,
1900, and no dunnage in any of said boats they shall, under oath, certify
to the clerk of said court, giving the tonnage of such boat, 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 said clerk at the time of
applying for said 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 any such duly author-
ized 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 measurements, and the right granted
by any such license already issued shall be suspended until the full pay-
ment 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 custom-house measurement; but should a license
be issued to such boat, which afterwards on measurements by the ad-
measurers 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 a 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 General Laws for that offense; after the cer-
tificate of the admeasurers shall be filed with the respective clerks, and
the applicants shall present to such clerk the duplicate certificate herein-
before provided for, the clerks shall issue to said applicants a license for
said boat if all other requirements 'and conditions aforesaid herein pro-
vided shall be complied with; whenever a boat has once been measured
and certified to bv the admeasurers, no second measurement or certificate