98 OYSTERS. [ART 72

1900, ch. 380.

2. Each and every license issued in conformity to the pro-
visions of section one of this article shall state the name, color,
age and residence of the person to whom the license is to be
granted; the number thereof 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,
three and one-half dollars, except boys under fifteen years of
age; the clerk to receive twenty-five cents for each and every,
such license, as a fee for issuing the same, including adminis-
tering the oath when required. Two-thirds of the amount
received for such 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 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 as aforesaid shall be required
to make oath or affirmation before the clerk authorized to
issue the same, or some justice of the peace, on whose certifi-
cate of the taking of such oath or affirmation the clerk shall
issue said license; that the facts set forth therein 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 pro-
vided in this article and that he will comply with and obey all
laws of this State regulating the taking or catching of oysters.

1900, ch. 99.

6. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons who have
obtained a license to take or catch oysters with rakes or tongs,
to take or catch oysters in the waters of Queen Anne's, Kent