DORCHESTER COUNTY. 232T

shall be required, unless good reasons exist to justify the belief on the
part of the admeasurer that the size of said boat ha-s been increased since

last measured.

Jones v. State, 68 Md. 613.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10. sec. 255. 1886, ch. 206. 1900, ch. 693, sec. 255.
1901 (Special Session), ch. 17.

425. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dorchester County, upon ap-
plication of the managing owner, who has been a resident of said county
for one year next preceding said application, and to no other person, shall
issue a license to such resident to employ his boat of a capacity of seven
tons gross or under; such capacity to be ascertained by rules of custom-
house measurement, as in the preceding section provided, in taking or
catching oysters with scrapes or dredges in the waters named in Section
423 of this Article, which said license shall hold good for one season only,
and shall authorize the catching of oysters from the 1st day of November
to the 15th day of March next succeeding, both inclusive, on which last-
named day said license shall expire; the applicant for such license shall
pay said clerk for the same the sum of one dollar and ninety cents per
gross ton, according to the capacity of the vessel to be licensed, which
capacity shall be determined by gross tonnage, and all boats measuring
less than five tons gross shall pay eight dollars for such license; but it
shall be lawful for the owner of any such licensed boat to transfer his
license to a purchaser of said boat who has been a bona, fide resident of
said county for twelve months next preceding said transfer, which license,
when transferred, shall entitle said vendee, after he has taken before the
clerk the oath or affirmation required of the vendor, to all the rights and
privileges of the said vendor under said license. The clerk shall endorse
the date and the name of the vendee upon said license, and receive from
said vendee the sum of twenty cents; every license shall state the name
and residence of the person to whom the same is granted; the name, num-
ber and tonnage of the boat, if over five tons gross, custom-house measure-
ment; provided, that the said clerk of the court, upon the application of
the managing owner, a resident of said county as aforesaid, and 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 scoops,
scrapes or dredges in the waters of said county for the dredging season
ending March 15, 1900, be and he is hereby authorized and directed,
upon a certificate of the admeasurer hereinbefore referred to, and upon
full compliance with the provisions of this section and Section 426, 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 issue to any boat
so licensed for said dredging season ending March 15, 1900, the tonnage
of which is greater than ten and fifty-two one-hundredths by the rules of
custom-house measurement, to be ascertained by said admeasurer; and if
said clerk shall issue such license without the said admeasurer's certificate,
when said certificate is necessary, or in any way contrary to the provisions