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OYSTERS. [ART. 13.

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 in said license are strictly true, that he has been

Requirements

a bond fide resident of the county for the twelve months next pie-
ceding his application for said license, that he desires and intends
to use said canoe or boat only in the county in which he resides,
that he will not allow the same to be used for taking oysters by
non-residents of the county, and that he will comply with and obey
all the laws of this State regulating the taking or catching of oys-
ters, and every person to whom such license shall have been granted
shall paint the number of his canoe or boat on the outside thereof,
near the gunwale, in black figures, and not less than three inches in
length, and of proportionate width, in a white ground, and no num-
ber other than that in the said license shall be exposed to view on

Violation

said canoe or boat, and any person failing to comply with this pro-
vision before using said boat or canoe for the purpose aforesaid,

Penalty.

shall, on conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, be fined
not less than five dollars nor more than ten, and any person who
may refuse to pay said fine shall be committed to the county jail for
the period of thirty days or until said fine be paid.

Id s 20
Blanks

19. The comptroller of the treasury shall cause to be printed and
delivered to the clerks of the Circuit Courts of the several counties,
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 of March and December in each year, return to the

Accounts

comptroller a list and account of such licenses issued by them; and

One kind of
license only to
be issued to
same boat

no licenses to take or catch oysters with rakes or tongs, shall be
issued to any boat or vessel which is licensed to take or catch oys-
ters with scoop, drag, dredge, or any similar instrument.

Id s 21
Use of
unlicensed boat

20. If any person shall use any canoe or boat, not licensed as
required by the preceding sections of this article, in taking or catch-
ing oysters with rakes or tongs except for private use, he shall,
upon conviction thereof before a justice of the peace for the county
wherein the offence has been committed, be fined not less than

Penalty

twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, and in case of a refusal
to pay said fine, said party shall be committed to the county jail for
six months or until said fine be paid.

Id s 22
Oyster fund

21. All moneys arising from the sale of licenses, or from fines,
penalties, and forfeitures, imposed under this article, shall, upon
warrant of the comptroller, be paid into the treasury and placed to

Statement by
comptroller.

the credit of the oyster fund; and the comptroller is hereby required
to state in his annual report particularly the receipts and expendi-
tures on account of said fund, and the balance standing to the credit
of the State at the time of making such report.

Id s 23
Privilege of
riparian owner
to plant, etc
22 Md 380

22. The owner or owners of any land bordering on any of the
navigable waters of this State, the lines of which extend into and
are covered by said waters, shall have the exclusive privilege of