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for sale, in any of the waters thereof, unless he shall first have obtained from
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County, a license which shall state
the name, color, age and residence of the person to whom such license is
granted, and the number of said license. Every applicant for such license
shall pay to the Clerk of said Court before the issuing and delivery of
the same, a license fee of One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50), and said
Clerk shall also be entitled to receive from said applicant the sum of
Twenty-five Cents (25c) as a fee for issuing said license, and adminis-
tering the oath required herein. Two-thirds of the amount received for
such license shall be paid by the Clerk to the School Commissioners of
Somerset County for the use of the Public Schools in said County, and
of this amount the portion received from white tongers shall go to the sup-
port of white schools, and the portion received from colored tongers shall
go to the support of the colored schools, and the remaining one-third shall
be paid over by the Clerk of said Court to the Comptroller of the State
Treasury, to be credited to the Oyster Fund.

1916, ch. 179, sec. 2.

294. No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of
shipping clams in Somerset County without having first obtained from
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County a license for said business
for which a license fee of five dollars shall be charged, two-thirds of
which sum shall be paid by the said Clerk to the School Commissioners
of Somerset County for the use of the Public Schools in the said County;
and of this amount the portion received from white licensees shall go to
the support of the white schools, and the portion received from colored
licensees shall go to the support of colored schools, and the remaining
one-third shall be paid over by the said Clerk to the Comptroller of the
State Treasurey to be credited to the Oyster Fund.

1916, ch. 179, sec. 3.

295. Every applicant for a license as aforesaid, shall be required to
make oath or affirmation before the said Clerk, or before a Justice of the
Peace of Somerset County, or a Notary Public, upon whose certificate
of the taking of such oath or affirmation the said Clerk shall issue said
license, that the facts set forth therein are strictly true, and that he has
been a resident of said County for twelve months next preceding his
application for said license.

1916, ch. 179, sec. 4.

296. Every such license shall entitle the holder thereof to take or
catch clams in the waters of Somerset County during the calendar year
for which same is issued, and shall be issued upon printed forms sup-
plied by the Comptroller of the Treasury, who shall take receipts for the
same from the said Clerk as for other licenses furnished and said Clerk
shall upon the first Monday of December in each year return to said
Comptroller all unused Licenses and shall pay over to him one-third of the
amount received by said Clerk for such licenses as in this Act provided.