5240 ARTICLE 24.

such license shall pay to the Clerk of the Circuit Court where such license
may be granted, and before the issuing and delivery of the same, three
and on half dollars; the Clerk to receive fifty cents for each and every
such license as a fee for issuing the same, including administering the
oath when required. Two-thirds of the amount received, for such licenses
shall be paid by the Clerk to the School Commissioners for the use of the
public schools in the respective counties where such licenses are issued, and
of this amount the portion received from the white tongers to go to the
white schools, and the portion received from the colored tongers to go to
the colored schools, and the remaining third to be paid over by the Clerk
to the Comptroller of the State Treasury, to be credited to the oyster fund.

1910, ch. 351. 1920 Code, sec. 211.

164. Every applicant for license as aforesaid shall be required to make
oath or affirmation before the clerk authorized to issue the same; or some
justice of the peace, on whose certificate of the taking of such oath or
affirmation the clerk shall issue said license; that the facts set forth therein
are strictly true; that he has been a bona fide resident of the county for
twelve months next preceding his application for said license and that he
will comply with and obey all the laws of this State and county regulating
the taking or catching of oysters.

1910, ch. 351. 1920 Code, sec. 212.

165. The Comptroller of the Treasury shall cause to be printed and
delivered to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the said county the requisite
number of such blank licenses and take receipts for the same as for other
licenses furnished; and said Clerk shall on the first Monday of March and
December of each year return to the Cmptroller a list and account of such
licenses issued by him, and at the end of each tonging season shall return
all unused licenses to him, and shall pay over to the Comptroller one-third
of the amount received by him for such licenses, which amount the said
Comptroller shall place to the credit of the oyster fund.

1910, ch. 351. 1920 Code, sec. 213.

166. If any person shall take oysters with rakes or tongs for sale, with-
out having first obtained a license as required by the preceding sections,
he shall, upon conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace for the
county wherein the offense has been committed, be fined not less than
twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, and stand committed to the
county jail until all costs and fines are paid; and the boat or vessel used
in such violation shall be forfeited, and shall be released upon the pay-
ment of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dol-
lars, and costs and expenses, for each and every violation of the preceding
sections. All persons taking or catching oysters under the provisions of
this Article shall exhibit their authority for so doing when required by
any officer of the Oyster Police Force or any other officer of the State.