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the oath when required. Two-thirds of the amount received
for such licenses shall be paid by the clerk to the school com"-
missioners 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.

1894, ch. 380, sec. 3.

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 certificate 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 provided
in this article and that he will comply with and obey all laws
of this State regulating the taking or catching of oysters.

Ibid. sec. 4.

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 comptroller 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. sec. 5.

5. If any person shall take oysters with rakes or tongs, for
sale, without first having obtained a license as required by the