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ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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affirmation shall state that the applicant for the license
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has been a resident and citizen of Saint Mary's or
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Charles county, as the case may be, for the twelve
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months next preceding said application; it shall give
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the length of the boat or canoe to be used; he must
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be the bona fide owner of the same; that he will
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not violate any of the provisions of this act; that
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he will arrest and seize, or assist in arresting and
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seizing, all persons and boats, vessels and equipments,
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engaged in violating the provisions of this act, so far
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as it may be in his power so to do; any person found
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Penalty.
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guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section
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shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty dollars
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nor more than fifty dollars.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That every applicant
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for a tonger's license under the provisions of this act
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shall pay to the clerk of the circuit court for Saint
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Mary's or Charles county, as the case may be, for the
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same the following fees, to wit : For a boat or canoe
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Fees for license
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measuring in length twenty feet or less, the sum
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of two dollars and fifty cents; for a boat or canoe
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twenty feet long and not over thirty feet, the sum
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of four dollars; and for any boat or canoe over
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thirty feet in length, the sum of five dollars: the
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fees received by the clerks of the respective cir-
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cuit courts for licenses, for tonging shall be paid
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by them to the school commissioners of their re-
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spective counties, excepting the sum of sixty cents
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which they shall retain out of the cost of each license
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as their fee for issuing the same; provided, however,
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Proviso.
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that the sum received from the issuing of licenses to
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colored tongers shall be applied for the benefit of the
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colored schools of said county; no license to tongers
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under this act shall be construed to permit the taking
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or catching of oysters on Sunday or at night, or be-
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tween the fifteenth day of April and the fifteenth day
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of August, in each and every year, except for private
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use, and all oysters taken shall be culled upon the
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Call upon beds.
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natural beds where they are taken; any person or
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persons violating the provisions of this section, upon
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conviction thereof, shall be subject to the fines and
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penalties prescribed in the preceding section of this
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Penalty.
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act.
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SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That every licensed tonger
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under the provisions of this act shall paint the num-
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ber of his license in black figures on a white ground
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