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Repeal.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-six, forty,
forty-eight and sixty-three of Article seventy-two of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Oysters," as re-enacted by
chapter 380 of the Acts of 1894, be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as
follows :
21. The owner of such boat shall make oath before the
Comptroller or his clerk, or if the owner be a resident of
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Oath of owner
of boat.
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Baltimore city, he may make oath before the clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, or if a resident of a county, he may
make oath before the clerk of the Circuit Court for said
county, at the same time exhibiting his custom house license to
said officer, before whom he makes the oath, that he is the
bona fide owner of such boat described in the license; that he
has been a resident of the State, for the time hereinbefore pre-
scribed; that there is no lien on said boat, held by a non-resi-
dent, directly or indirectly, and that the said boat is not held,
and shall not be knowingly used with an intention to violate or
evade provisions of this article, and such applicant shall pro-
duce before the Comptroller, at the time of making such
application, the certificate of the taking of such oath, and the
gross custom house tonnage, which gross tonnage the owner
shall swear to, and shall further make oath that before the
measurement of said vessel by the custom house officers, the
said vessel was not dunnaged, so as to evade the just and
proper measurement of tonnage of said vessel, with a view of
evading a proper and just sum for the licensing of said vessel.
The master of such boat shall also make oath before the
Comptroller or his clerk, or if a resident of Baltimore city,
before the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, or before the
clerk of the Circuit Court of the county wherein he may
reside, that he has been a resident of the State for the twelve
months next preceding the time of taking such oath; any one
violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction before a judge of the Criminal Court of
Baltimore city, or a judge of the Circuit Court of the county,
or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction, as the case may
be, shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more
than three hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the House of Cor-
rection for a period of not less than three months or more than
six months, or both, at the discretion of the judge or justice of
the peace.
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