ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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of September, in the year in which they may have

been obtained, to the fifteenth day of April next suc-

ceeding; provided that such license shall not authorize

the use of said canoe or boat in taking or catching

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 counties bordering on navigable waters

shall be strictly construed so as not to permit the resi-

dents of either county to take or catch oysters beyond

the middle of the dividing channel; provided that

Proviso.

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

vent the citizens of Queen Ann's and Kent counties

from using the waters of Chester river in common; or

the citizens of Dorchester and Wicomico counties from

using the waters of the Nanticoke river in common ;

or the citizens of Queen Ann'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 Chop-

tank river in common.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That each and every

license to take or catch oysters for sale, with rakes or

tongs, shall state the name and residence of the person

License shall

to whom the same is to be granted, the number, to-

state.

gether with the length, to be obtained by top or over-

all measurement of the canoe or boat licensed, the

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

at which said license will expire; and every applicant

for such license shall pay to the clerk of the court

where such license may be granted, and before the

issuing and delivery of the same, according to the fol-

Cost of license.

lowing rates, viz : For any boat measuring in length

twenty feet or less, the sum of two dollars; measuring

from twenty to twenty-five feet, the sum of three dol-

lars; measuring from twenty-five to thirty feet, the

sum of four dollars; and all over thirty feet, including

sloops under custom-house tonnage, the sum of five

dollars each; and all oysters taken with rakes or tongs

shall be culled upon the natural beds where they

Cull on beds.

are taken; the amount received from tonging license

to be paid by the clerk to the school commissioners

for the public schools in the respective counties where

such license is issued, provided the sum received from

Disposal of fine

white tongers shall go to white schools, and the sum

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