54 OYSTERS. [ART. 71.

enforcement of such laws, and shall also produce before the
Comptroller the enrollment or license of such vessel, under such
rules and regulations as the Comptroller may have previously
prescribed.

4. The applicant, before obtaining such license, shall pay
therefore at the rate of five dollars per ton for every ton said
vessel may measure, according to its custom house enrollment
or license; and it shall be the duty of every such applicant to
have said license framed, and so set or placed upon the quarter-
deck or binnacle of said licensed vessel, so as to be exposed to
the full gaze or view of every person who may board said ves-
sel; provided, that no steamboat, steam vessel or steam machinery
shall be used for the purpose of taking or catching oysters with
a scoop, dredge, drag, or any other instrument whatever; every
vessel engaged in carrying oysters, or used or employed in the
oyster trade in the Chesapeake bay, shall take out the license
required by law, and be subject to all the provisions of the seve-
ral sections of this article.

6. Any person violating any of the provisions of the pre-
ceding sections, shall pay a fine of not less than fifty, or more
than five hundred dollars, or forfeit the boat or vessel in posses-
sion of the party so offending, together with his papers, furni-
ture, tackle and apparel, and all things on board of her at the
time of her seizure, or both, pay such fine and forfeit such ves-
sel and other property, in the discretion of the justice of the
peace or judge of the Circuit Court before whom such case is
tried.

6. The Comptroller of the Treasury shall cause to be printed
and delivered to the clerks of the several Circuit Courts
and of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore city, the re-
quisite number of such blank licenses, and take receipt for the
same as for other licenses granted, and the clerks of the several
counties, and the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Balti-
more city, shall on or before the first Monday in June and De-
cember, in each year, return to the Comptroller of the Treasury
a list and account of the licenses issued by them.