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OYSTERS. [ART. 71.

said, license will expire, and every applicant for such
license shall pay to the clerk of the court, where such
license may be granted, and before the issuing and
delivery of the same according to the following rates,

Rates.

viz. : for every boat or canoe measuring in length
twenty. feet or less, the sum of four dollars; measur-
ing from twenty to twenty-five feet, the sum of six
dollars; measuring from twenty-five to thirty feet, the
sum of eight dollars, and all over thirty feet in length,
including sloops under custom house tonnage, the sum
of ten dollars each.

Ibid s 9.
Oath of appli-
cant for license

8. Every applicant for license to take or catch
. oysters with rakes or tongs, shall be required to make
oath before the clerk authorized to issue the same, or
some justice of the peace, upon whose certificate of the
taking of such oath the clerk shall issue said license,
that the facts set forth in said license are strictly true ;
that he is a bona fide resident of the county in which
such application is made, and that he will obey and
comply with all the provisions of the laws of this state
regulating the taking or catching of oysters; and every
person to whom such license may be granted, shall be

Name or num-
ber.

required to paint the name or number of his canoe or
other boat, on said boat, to correspond with said num-
ber, or name, in said license; and any person neglect-
ing or refusing to comply with this provision, shall,

Fine.

on conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, pay
a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than ten
dollars, one-half to be paid to the informer, and the
residue to the comptroller of the treasury.

Ibid. s. 10.
Blank licenses.

9. The comptroller of the treasury shall cause to be
printed and delivered to the clerks of the circuit courts
for the several counties, and the clerk of the court of
common pleas of Baltimore city, the requisite number
of such blank licenses, and take receipts for the same
as for other licenses furnished, and the said clerks
shall, on the first Monday in March, June, Septem-
ber and December in each year, return to the said
comptroller a list and account of such licenses issued
by them.