1756 ST. MARY'S COUNTY. [ART. 19.

the twelve months next preceding said application; that he will
jiot violate any of the provisions of this sub-title of this article;
that he will arrest and seize, or assist in arresting and seizing, all
persons and boats, vessels and equipments engaged in violating
the provisions of sections 87-94 of this sub-title of this article, so
far as it may be in his power so to do; and that he is the bona
fide owner of the boat or canoe to be used, the length of which,
said applicant must state; any person found guilty of violating
any of the provisions of this section shall be fined in a sum not
less than twenty dollas nor more than fifty dollars.

1886, ch. 300.

92. Every applicant for a tonger's license under the provisions

of this sub-title of this article shall pay to the clerk of the circuit
court for St. Mary's county for the same, the following fees, to
wit: for a boat or canoe measuring in length twenty feet or less,
the sum of two dollars and fifty cents; for a boat or canoe twenty
feet long and not over thirty feet, the sum of four dollars; and
for any boat or canoe over thirty feet in length, the sum of five

dollars; the fees received by the clerk of said court for licenses
for tonging shall be paid by him to the school commissioners of

said county, excepting the sum of sixty'cents, which he shall
retain out of the cost of each license as his fee for issuing the
same; provided, however, that the sum received from the issuing

of licenses to colored tongers shall be applied for the benefit of
the colored schools of said, county; no license to tongers under
this sub-title of this article shall be construed to permit the taking
or catching of oysters on Sunday or at night, or between the fif-
teenth day of April and the fifteenth day of August in each and
every year, and all oysters taken shall be culled upon the natural
beds where they are taken; any person violating the provisions,
of this section, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to the
fines and penalties prescribed in the preceding section.

Ibid.

93. Every licensed tonger, under the provisions of this sub-title
of this article, shall paint the number of his license in black fig-
ures on a white ground upon the outside of the boat to be used
by him in catching oysters; said figures to be not less than four