ART. 72] TONGING. 453

61. Suspension of licensed meas- urers; proviso. 62. Salaries of general measurers. Tax for payment of said sal- aries. Penalty for refusal to collect or pay said tax. When appointments of general mea- surers are to be made. 63. Rules for measurement of oysters. Penalty for violating said measurements. 64. Penalty for charging more than one-half cent per bushel. Exempted "Waters 65. Waters in which catching oysters shall be unlawful. Not appli- cable to Dorchester county.

Packing Oysters. 66. Packer's license.. Cost of said license. Duty of licensee. 67. Penalty for canning without license. 67 A. Commission merchant's license — cost. Penalty for selling without license. Shucking Oysters. "67 B. Provisions regarding oysters shucked by the gallon. Comptroller's Duties. 68. Comptroller to furnish all forms of application, license, reports returns and other blanks. Worcester county exempt from provisions of this article.

Tonging.

1894, ch. 380.

1. Any resident of this State desiring to catch or take oysters
with rakes or tongs, for sale in any of the waters of this State,
shall first obtain by application to the clerk of the circuit court
for the county wherein he may reside, a license therefor, and
such license shall have effect from the first day of September, in
the year in which it may have been obtained, to the twenty-fifth
day of April, inclusive, next succeeding; provided, that such
license shall not authorize the taking or catching of oysters in
any creek, cove, river, inlet, bay or sound, within the limits of
any county other than that wherein the license shall have been
granted, and that the boundaries of the counties bordering on
navigable waters shall be strictly construed so as not to permit
the residents of either county to take or catch oysters beyond
the middle of the dividing channel; provided, that nothing in
this section shall be so construed as to prevent the citizens of
Queen Anne's and Kent counties from using the waters of the
Chester river in common, or the citizens of Dorchester and
Wicomico counties from using the waters of Nanticoke river in
common, or the citizens of Queen Anne's and Talbot counties
from using the waters of Wye river and the mouth thereof in
common, or the citizens of Dorchester and Talbot counties from
using the waters of the Choptank river in common; provided,