ART. 39] CHESAPEAKE BAY. 1165

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, sec 91.

102. Each and every license to take or catch fish for sale
under the provision of section 101, 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 for the county 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 for
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 Mary-
land, to be credited to the "Oyster Fund."

Ibid. sec. 92.

103. 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 the use of said pound
net, fyke or haul seine or other contrivance used in taking fish
for sale, or any boat or vessel used in the prosecution of said
fishing, of pound nets, fykes, haul seines, or other contrivances
in the taking or catching of fish for sale."

1896, ch. 441, sec 93.

104. 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,