ART. 72 TONGING. 455

1894, ch. 380.

4. The comptroller of the treasury shall cause to be printed
and delivered to the clerks of the circuit courts for the several
counties the requisite number of such blank licenses, and take
receipts for the same as for other licenses furnished; and said
clerks shall, on the first Monday of March and December of each
year, return to the comptroller a list and account of such licenses
issued by them, and at the end of each tonging season, shall
return all unused licenses to him, and shall pay over to the comp-
troller one-third of the amount received by them for such licenses,
which amount the said comptroller shall place to the credit of the
"Oyster Fund; " and no license to take or catch oysters with rakes
or tongs shall be used on any boat or vessel which is licensed to
take or catch oysters with scoop, drag, dredge or any similar
instrument during the season for which such boat or vessel is
licensed; and all licenses shall expire at the end of the season.

Ibid.

5. If any person shall take oysters with rakes or tongs, for
sale, without first having obtained a license as required by the
preceding sections of this article, he shall upon conviction thereof
before a justice of the peace for the county wherein the offense
has been committed, be fined not less than twenty nor more than
one hundred dollars, and stand committed to the county jail till
all costs and fines are paid; and in any such case the boat or
vessel used by him shall be forfeited, and may be condemned, in
the discretion of the judge or justice of the peace, in the manner
provided in section 23. All persons taking or catching oysters
under the provisions of this article shall exhibit their authority
for so doing when required by any officer of the oyster police
force, or other officers of the State.

1898, ch. 117.

6. It shall be unlawful for any person who has obtained a
license to take or catch oysters with rakes or tongs, to take or
catch oysters in the waters of Talbot, Anne Arundel and Dor-
chester counties, or within one and a-half miles of Sandy Point,
Hackett's Point, Tolley's Point, Thomas' Point, Holland's Island
Bar and Three Sisters and Holland's Point Bar, with any im-
plement or device other than ordinary rakes and tongs with