454 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

however, that the county commissioners shall be authorized to
give special permission to any woman who has no visible means
of support, to take and catch oysters without license; provided,
also, that boys under fifteen years of age shall not be required to
license.

1894, ch. 880.

2. Each and every license to take or catch oysters for sale with
rakes or tongs, shall state the name, age and residence of the
person to whom the same is to be granted, the number and the
county in which the same is to be used, and every applicant for
such license shall pay to the clerk of the circuit court, when such
license may be granted and before the issuing and delivery of
the same, the sum of three and a half dollars, except boys under
fifteen years of age, the clerk to receive twenty-five cents for
each and every tonging license so issued as a fee for issuing the
same, including administering the oath when required; two-
thirds of the amount received for tonging licenses, shall be paid
by the clerk to the school commissioners for the use of the public
schools in the respective counties where such licenses are issued,
and of this amount the portion received from white tongers, to
go to the white schools, and the portion received from the colored
tongers, to go to the colored schools, and the remaining one-third
to be paid over by the clerk to the Comptroller of the State
treasury, to be credited to the " Oyster Fund. "

Ibid

3. Every applicant for license to take or catch oysters with
rakes or tongs shall be required to make oath or affirmation
before the clerk authorized to issue the same, or 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 county for twelve months next preceding his
application for said license; that he desires and intends to use
said license in the county in which he resides, or the waters used
in common, as herein provided in this article, and that he will
comply with and obey all the laws of this State, regulating the
taking or catching of oysters.