310 - PISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

nets, fykes, haul seines or other contrivances, except hook and
line, within the waters of the Chesapeake bay, below Pool's
island, and within the jurisdictional limits of the State of Mary-
land, shall first obtain by application to the clerk of the circuit
court for the county wherein he may reside, or the clerk of the
court of common pleas of Baltimore city, a license therefor,
and such license shall have effect from the first day of February,
in the year in which it may have been obtained, to the first day
of February, inclusive, next succeeding; and provided further,
that such license shall not authorize the taking or catching of
fish, except with hook and line, within the jurisdictional limits
of any county or counties in this State.

1896, ch. 441.

91. Each and every license to take or catch fish for sale under
the provision of section 90 of this article, shall state the name,
age and residence of the person to whom the same is to be
granted, and every applicant for such license shall pay to the
clerk of the circuit court or the clerk of the court of common
pleas of Baltimore city, when such license shall be granted and
before the delivery of the same, the sum of five dollars; the
clerk to receive the sum of twenty-five cents per each and every
license so issued, as a fee for issuing the same, including the
administering of the oath when required; and the said amount
of license received for issuing same shall be paid over by the
clerk into the treasury of the State of Maryland, to be credited
to the "Oyster Fund. "

Ibid.

92. Every applicant for license to take or catch fish for sale,
under the provisions of this article, shall be required to make
oath or affirmation before the clerk authorized to issue the same,
or before 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 a bona fide resident of the State of Maryland
for the twelve months next preceding his application for said
license, and that no non-resident of the State of Maryland is
either directly or indirectly interested in use of said pound net,
fyke or haul seine or other contrivance used in taking fish for