FISH AND FISHERIES 1663

1929, ch. 471, sec. 53.

61. (Oath of Applicant.) Every applicant for license to take or catch
fish for sale, under the provisions of this Article, shall be required to make
oath or affirmation before the clerk authorized to issue the same, or before
some justice of the peace or notary public, on whose certificate of the
taking of such oath or affirmation, the clerk shall issue said license that
"the facts set forth in said license are strictly true; that he has been a bona
fide resident of the State of Maryland for the twelve months preceding his
application for said license," or if he be a non-resident of the State but
owner of land bordering on any of the tributary waters of the State and is
the owner of riparian rights provided for in Section 24, then he shall set
forth in such oath, "that he is the lawful owner of land bordering on waters
in the county wherein he desires to fish and that such license is issued to
him to fish in the waters opposite his shore."

1929, ch. 471, sec. 54. 1931, ch. 489.

62. (Costs of Licenses.) Each and every license to take fish for sale
under the provisions of the preceding sections shall state the name, age
and residence of the person to whom said license is granted and every
applicant for such license shall pay to the clerk of the Circuit Court of
the county or the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City,
when such license shall be granted and before the delivery of same, the
following fees: For pound nets operated in Chesapeake Bay, the sum of
$5.00 for the first net and $1.00 for each additional net; for pound nets
operated in the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, the sum of $2.00 for
all nets; for each haul seine, the sum of $5.00 for the first net and $2.00
for each additional net; for nets operated in Chincoteague, Sinepuxent,
Isle of Wight, Assawoman Bays and their tributaries, the sum of $5.00
for each pound net and haul seine; for each gill net the sum of $3.00;
for each pound net operated in the Atlantic Ocean within three miles of
the shore of Worcester County, the sum of $5.00; until November 1, 1931,
for each and every purse or buck net the sum of $25.00; and the clerk is
hereby authorized to issue one license for any number of nets licensed by
any one person, and in addition to the above license fees shall receive the
sum of 25 cents for each and every license so issued as a fee for issuing
same; and the said clerk shall on the first of each month render an
account of such licenses issued by them during the preceding month and
remit to the Comptroller all money received by him for issuing said
licenses, to be credited by the Comptroller to the Conservation Fund.¹

See secs. 86, 92 and 93.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 55.

63. (License Blanks.) The Comptroller of the Treasury shall cause to
be printed and delivered to the Clerk of the Circuit Courts for the several
counties the requisite number of such blank licenses, and take receipt for
same; and require them to be accounted for as provided in Section 62.

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 489 of acts of 1931 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.