ART. 10. ] DORCHESTER COUNTY.

and the period at which said license was to expire, and
every applicant for such license shall pay to the clerk
of the said court for said county, and before the issuing
and delivery of the same, according to the following

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rates, viz: for every canoe or boat measuring in length
twenty feet or less, the sum of five dollars; measuring
from twenty to twenty-five feet, the sum of eight dol-
lars; measuring from twenty-five to thirty feet, the
sum of ten dollars; and all over thirty feet in length,
including sloops under custom house tonnage, the sum
of twenty dollars each, and the said license shall be
exhibited whenever called upon to do so by any officer
of the state of Maryland, or other person authorized to
demand the same.

Rate.

247. Every applicant for a license to use or employ
any canoe or other boat not exceeding five tons bur-
then, according to custom house measurement, in tak-
ing or catching oysters with scoops, in the waters
described in section one of this act, shall be required
to make oath or affirmation before the clerk of the
circuit court for said county, or before some justice of
the peace for said county, upon whose certificate of the
taking of such oath or affirmation, the said clerk may
issue said license; that the facts set forth in said license
are strictly true, that he has been a bona fide resident
of said county for the twelve months next preceding
his application for said license; that he desires and
intends to use said canoe or boat only in said county,
and that he will comply with and obey all the provi-
sions of the laws of this state regulating the taking or
or catching of oysters; and every person to whom such

Ibid. s. 4.
Oath of appli-
cant for license.

license shall have been granted, shall paint the num-
ber of his canoe or other boat on the outside thereof
near the gunwale, in black figures not less than five
inches in length, and of proportionate width, on a
white ground, and no number other than that in the
said license shall be exposed to view on said canoe or
boat, and any person neglecting or refusing to comply
with this provision before using or employing the said
canoe or other boat, for the purpose aforesaid, shall on

Number to be
painted on boat