FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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not apply to boats or vessels licensed in the counties to take

oysters with scoop or scrape, which time shall begin on the

first day of October and end on the thirty -first day of March;

except Talbot and Dorchester Counties where time for taking

oysters with scoop, scrape or dredge, shall begin on the first

day of October and end on the first day of March.

5. Before granting such license the comptroller shall re-

ceive for it from the applicant at the rate of three dollars

Cost of
license

per ton for every ton the boat may measure ; and the license

shall be exhibited whenever called for by any officer of this

State.

11. Any boat, owned wholly or in part by any non-resi-

dent, used in catching oysters in this State, with scoop,

Boats of

dredge or similar instrument, is hereby declared to be for-

non-resi-

feited, and shall be condemned by order of any judge of a

dents

Circuit Court most accessible to the place of her capture, or

if captured in Baltimore City, by order of the city court,

and shall be sold by the sheriff of the county where con-

demned, or if condemned in Baltimore City, by the sheriff

of said city to the highest bidder for cash, after twenty days'

notice of the time and place of sale ; such notice to be pub-

lished at least three times in a newspaper, having the largest

circulation, printed in Baltimore City or in the county where

condemned ; one-fourth of the proceeds of such sale shall be

paid to the party making the capture, including the officers

and crews of the State fishery force, and the balance, shall

be paid into the treasury of the State to be credited to the

oyster fund ; provided, however, that any person claiming

an interest in such vessel, shall have the right to make an

appeal upon giving to the State a good and sufficient bond

as required in such cases ; provided, however, that when

the bona fides of the owner of any vessel shall be called in

question, the burden of proving such bona fides shall be

upon tliose claiming to be such owners ; and provided also,

that upon taking such appeal and filing such bond the said

vessel shall be released from custody.

12. The comptroller shall have painted in black figures

on white canvas two sets of numbers corresponding to the

license to catcli oysters with scoop, scrape, dredge or any

Numbers

other similar instrument ; each figure shall be twenty -two

inches in length and of proportionate width, and the figures

at least six inches apart ; and he shall give to each person

taking out such license two numbers thereof, one of which

shall be securely sewed upon the starboard side, and in the

middle of that part of the mainsail which is above the close

reef, and the other number on the port side, in the middle

part of the jib which is above the bonnet and reef ; these