ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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trary to law, as may be necessary for the purpose

above specified, but they shall incur no expense

beyond the revenue derived from said licenses and

fines.

95. The clerk of the circuit court for Somerset

county, upon application of any citizen of Somerset

county, the owner of a canoe or any other vessel, shall

Clerk issue

issue a license to such citizen, authorizing him to take

license.

or catch oysters within the waters of said county,

subject to such regulations and designations as may be

made by the county commissioners relating thereto,

with scoop, drag or dredge, for one year from the date

of said license, specifying therein the kind of vessel

to be used, the number thereof, and the name, if any,

of the canoe or other vessel on which the said license

is to be used, and he shall pay for said scraping or

Cost of license.

dredging license at the rate of two dollars per ton for

the vessel so to be employed, and the tonnage of ves-

sels under five tons shall be ascertained in such manner

as may be prescribed by said county commissioners,

but no vessel above ten tons burthen shall be licensed

or employed in taking oysters with scoop, drag or

dredge within the waters of Somerset county unless,

at the time of applying to the clerk for license as

aforesaid, the owner thereof shall produce to the clerk

Produce State

a state license in force authorizing said owner to em-

licence.

ploy the said vessel in taking oysters in the waters of

this State, in which case it shall be the duty of the

clerk to issue said license to the said owner, author-

izing him or the said master thereof to employ the said

vessel in the waters of Somerset county for one year,

subject to the regulations and designations of said

county commissioners upon his complying with all the

provisions of this law, and no canoe or other vessel

shall be employed in taking oysters with scoop, drag

or dredge within the waters of Somerset county unless

the owner thereof shall have first obtained a license

First obtain
license.

as above provided, and the said license shall not allow

or authorize the taking of oysters at any time when

by the general oyster law of this state it may be un-

lawful to take oysters with scoop, scrape, drag or

dredge; and if at any time hereafter the said state

law may be changed, then it shall not be lawful to

take oysters at any time that it may be unlawful to

take the same under said state law; and the posses-

sion of any oyster in the shell by any person within