HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

winder or any other machine or equipment
for operating or handling scoops, scrapes or
dredges during said oyster season, commencing
on the first day of November eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four and ending on the first
day of April eighteen hundred and eighty-five,
and said boat was only employed in carrying
buying and selling oysters, and said oath or
affirmation, accompanied with the said license,
if. said license is lost or mislaid, a certificate
from the Comptroller that such license was
issued, and presented to said Board of Public

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Works, who shall without unnecessary delay
examiue said affidavit or affirmation and license
or certificate thereof, and if there appear no rea-
sonable grounds for doubt as to the truth of said
oath or affirmation, the members of the Board of
Public Works shall order the Comptroller to
draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of the
State for said amount named in said license in
favor of the said owner or owners of said boat,
according to their ownership as exhibited in
said license; but if the members of the said
Board of Public Works shall entertain reason-
able doubts of the truth of said oath or affirma-
tion, they shall require" said master and owner
to furnish other reasonable evidence corrobora-
ting their statements.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if the master
or owner of any boat, or any person, shall make
a false oath or affirmation before said Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, or Board of Public

Evidence.

Works in order to secure the money from the
Treasurer on any such license, he or they shall
be guilty of a felony, and shall, upon convic-
tion of such offence in a Court of competent
jurisdiction, be sentenced to the Penitentiary
of Maryland for a term not less than two nor
more than five years.

Perjury.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1886.

Effective.