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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. 21, sec. 163. 1878, ch. 359.

378. Any resident of Talbot or Dorchester counties desiring to use any
canoe or other boat in catching or taking oysters for sale, with rakes or
tongs, in the said Choptank river, shall first obtain, by application to the
clerk of the circuit court for said counties, respectively, a license there-
for; and such license shall have effect from the first day of June in the
year in which it may be obtained to the first day of June succeeding, and
shall authorize the use of said canoe or boat in taking or catching oysters
on either side of the dividing channel of said river, for sale to any person;
provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to conflict
with the rights of owners or occupants of lands bordering on said river
secured and protected under existing laws.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 164. 1888, ch. 385. 1894, ch. 178.

379. For the purpose of more definitely defining the lines for scraping
oysters in Choptank river in Talbot county, the following lines shall be
construed as the mouths of its tributaries, to wit: beginning at the north
end of Vincent's Neck woods on Tilgman's island, and running thence
to Long or Nelson's point, which line shall be construed as defining the
mouth of Harris' river; thence from said Long or Nelson's point to the
south end of Royston's island, and thence in a straight- line to Benonis
point, which line shall be construed as the mouth of Broad river and Irish
creek, thence from Benonis point to Clorss point; and the County Com-
missioners of Talbot county shall procure eight buoys, two of which shall
be placed on each of the above described lines by the oyster police boat

*Sec. 2, ch. 180, 1902, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.