944 CHARLES COUNTY. [ART. 9

1884, ch. 463.

126. It shall not be lawful for any person, not a citizen of
Charles county, to take or catch oysters with tongs, or any other
instrument, in any of the tributaries of the Potomac river
adjacent to the shores of Charles county, without a license; and
every applicant for a license to use any canoe or other boat in
catching oysters with rakes or tongs shall be required to make
oath or affirmation before the clerk of the court authorized to
issue the same, or before some justice of the peace of Charles
county, upon whose certificate of the taking of such oath or
affirmation the said clerk of the court shall issue such license,
that the applicant for the license has been a resident and citizen
of Charles county for the twelve months next preceding said
application; that he will not violate any of the provisions of any
of the sections 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
said sections, 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 must also be stated. Any person found guilty
of violating any of the provisions of said sections shall be fined
in a sum not less then twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

Ibid

127. Every applicant for a tongers license shall pay to the
clerk of the circuit court for Charles 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 &
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 the circuit
court for licenses for tonging shall be paid by him to the school com-
missioners 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 shall be construed to permit the taking or catching of
oysters on Sunday or at night, or between the fifteenth day of
April and the fifteenth day of August, in each and every year,