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	arrests of any persons, and seize any boats, vessels and
	equipments engaged in violating the provisions of this act. For such license the applicant shall pay
	to the clerk of the circuit court issuing the same
	as follows : for a boat or canoe measuring in length	Amount to
	twenty feet or less the sum of two dollars ; for a	be paid.
	boat or canoe twenty to twenty- five feet in length
	the sum of three dollars ; for a boat or canoe twenty-
	five to thirty feet in length the sum of four dollars ;
	for a boat or canoe over thirty feet in length the sum
	of five dollars ; and for sloops under Custom House
	measurement the sum of six dollars. And all oys-
	ters taken shall be culled upon the natural beds
	where they are taken. The amount received from
	tonging licenses shall be paid by the clerk to the
	school commissioners for the public schools of the
	respective counties where such licenses are issued,
	provided the sum received from white tongers
	shall be applied to the white school fund, and the
	sum from the colored tongers to the colored school
	fund. No license to tongers under the provi-
	sions of this act shall authorize the catching of
	oysters for sale during the months of April, May,
	June, July and August. And any person or per-
	sons violating the provisions of this section shall be
	subject to like penalties as are prescribed by the
	preceding sections of this act.
	SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That every applicant
	for license under this act, to use any canoe or other
	boat, in catching oysters for sale, with rakes or tongs,
	shall be required to make oath or affirmation, before	Required to
	the clerk authorized to issue the same, or some jus-	make oath.
	tice of the peace of the county, on whose certificate
	of the taking such oath or affirmation the clerk shall
	issue such license ; said oath or affirmation shall as-
	sert that he has been a resident-citizen of the county
	for the twelve months next preceding his applica-
	tion, the length of the boat or canoe to be used ;
	that he is the bona fide owner of said boat or canoe;
	that he will not violate the provisions of this act ;
	that he will arrest and seize, or assist in arresting
	and seizing all persons and boats, vessels and equip-
	ments engaged in violating the provisions of this act,
	so far as it may be in his power to do so, and that
	he will not employ or permit any person to use his