ART. 21.] OYSTERS. 1883

neck of said dog or bitch, otherwise the said dog or bitch shall
be shot or otherwise destroyed; provided, that if any dog or
bitch being once in any year licensed as aforesaid should lose the
number, the owner, keeper or harborer of said dog or bitch shall,
within ten days after being notified by the bailiff, of such loss,
obtain a duplicate number from the clerk to the commissioners
said number to be furnished the keeper, owner or harborer at
cost; any person failing or refusing to comply with the provis-
ions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than one
dollar nor more than five dollars.

1884, ch. 88

154. Any justice of the peace residing in said town, or, in the
absence of such justice, any justice of the peace of election dis-
trict number three, in Talbot county, upon complaint made
before him of the violation of any law, by-law or ordinance of
said corporation, shall issue process, in the name of the commis-
sioners of Oxford, to recover the fine or penalty imposed for the
violation of such law, by-law or ordinance, against the party
offending, and may hear and determine the matter as in any case
arising under the laws of the State, and shall receive the same
fees therefor; the justice shall, in default of the payment of any
fine or penalty imposed by him for a violation of any law, by-law
or ordinance of the said corporation, commit the party fined to
the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days; and the
sheriff of Talbot county shall receive and confine the party so
committed in the same manner as other persons, and shall be
entitled to the same compensation therefor, to be paid by the
county commissioners.

OYSTERS.

1884, ch..468.

155. The clerk of the circuit court for Talbot and Dorchester
counties, respectively, shall, upon the application of any person who
has been a resident of such counties for twelve months next pre-
ceding such application, and to no other person, issue a license to
such resident to employ any boat of the capacity of ten tons, or
under such capacity, to be ascertained by custom-house measure-
ment, in taking or catching oysters with dredge, scoop or scrape.