ART. 72] TONGING. 1571

Tonging.

1894, ch. 380, sec. 1.* 1900, ch 380.

1. Any resident of this State desiring to catch 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 separate license for every
person to be employed on such boat, and such license shall
have effect from the first day of September in the year 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 limit of any county
other than that wherein the license shall have been granted ;
and that the boundaries of the counties or 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 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 the 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, 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, and provided
also that boys under fifteen years of age shall not be required
to license.
Tyler v. State, 93 Md. 309.

Ibid sec. 2. 1900, ch 380.

2. Each and every license issued in conformity to the pro-
visions of section 1 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 administering

*This act repealed the pre-existing article and enacted this new article.