FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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of the Circuit Court for the county wherein he may reside, a

license therefor, and such license shall have effect from the

License to

fifteenth day of September in the year, in which it may

take by
rakes or

have been obtained to the twentieth day of April, inclusive,

tongs.

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 limits of any

county, other than that wherein the license shall have been

granted, and that the boundaries of the counties bordering on

navigable waters shall be strictly construed so as not to

permit the residence of either county to take or catch oys-

ters beyond the middle of the dividing channel ; provided,

that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to pre-

vent the citizens of Queen Anne's and Kent Counties from

using the waters of the 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 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, how-

ever, 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,

provided, also, that boys under fifteen years of age, shall

not be required to license.

15. Each and every license to take or catch oysters for

sale, with rakes or tongs, shall state the name, age and

residence of the person to whom the same is to be granted,

What li-

the number, and the county in which the same is to be used,

cense to
contain.

and every applicant for such license shall pay to the clerk

of the court, when such license may be granted, and before

the issuing and delivery of the same, the sum, of three dol-

lars, and also the sum of fifty cents as a fee to the clerk for

issuing the same. Nine-tenths of the amount received

from tonging licenses shall be paid by the clerk, to the

School Commissioners for the public schools in the respec-

tive counties where such licenses are issued ; the sum re-

ceived from white tougers to go to white schools, and the

sum received from colored tongers to go to the colored schools.

16. Every applicant for license to take or catch oysters

with rakes or tongs, shall be required to make oath, or

affirmation, before the clerk authorized to issue the same,

Oath to be
made.

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 in said license are strictly

true ; that he has been a bona fide resident of the county for

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