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Session Laws, 1884 Session
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ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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affirmation shall state that the applicant for the license


has been a resident and citizen of Saint Mary's or


Charles county, as the case may be, for the twelve


months next preceding said application; it shall give


the length of the boat or canoe to be used; he must


be the bona fide owner of the same; that he will


not violate any of the provisions of this act; that


he will arrest and seize, or assist in arresting and


seizing, all persons and boats, vessels and equipments,


engaged in violating the provisions of this act, so far


as it may be in his power so to do; any person found

Penalty.

guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section


shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty dollars


nor more than fifty dollars.


SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That every applicant


for a tonger's license under the provisions of this act


shall pay to the clerk of the circuit court for Saint


Mary's or Charles county, as the case may be, for the


same the following fees, to wit : For a boat or canoe

Fees for license

measuring in length twenty feet or less, the sum


of two dollars and fifty cents; for a boat or canoe


twenty feet long and not over thirty feet, the sum


of four dollars; and for any boat or canoe over


thirty feet in length, the sum of five dollars: the


fees received by the clerks of the respective cir-


cuit courts for licenses, for tonging shall be paid


by them to the school commissioners of their re-


spective counties, excepting the sum of sixty cents


which they shall retain out of the cost of each license


as their fee for issuing the same; provided, however,

Proviso.

that the sum received from the issuing of licenses to


colored tongers shall be applied for the benefit of the


colored schools of said county; no license to tongers


under this act shall be construed to permit the taking


or catching of oysters on Sunday or at night, or be-


tween the fifteenth day of April and the fifteenth day


of August, in each and every year, except for private


use, and all oysters taken shall be culled upon the

Call upon beds.

natural beds where they are taken; any person or


persons violating the provisions of this section, upon


conviction thereof, shall be subject to the fines and


penalties prescribed in the preceding section of this

Penalty.

act.


SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That every licensed tonger


under the provisions of this act shall paint the num-


ber of his license in black figures on a white ground




 
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