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

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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

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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