JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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of Talbot and Dorchester, for which they are respectively
appointed, over six tons gross or smaller boats, if, in the judg-
ment of said ad measurers they have reason to believe such
boats have been incorrectly measured prior to the granting, by
the clerks of said Circuit Courts, a license to catch oysters
with scoop, scrape or dredge, and the said admeasurers acting
together in the presence of each other, shall as soon as notified,
and paid two dollars each for each boat and traveling expenses,
and the cost of certificate by the captain or managing owner
of such boats shall proceed to examine and measure the same;
if, after examining and measuring such boat, the admeasurer
linds that such boat is under seven tons gross or under ten and
fifty-two one-hundredths tons gross, and if such last-mentioned
boat was licensed to take oysters with scoop, scrape or dredge
on said waters for the season ending March 15, 1900, and no
dunnage in any of said boate, each of said admeasurers shall,
under oath, so certify to the clerk of the Court of the county to
which application for license is to be made, giving the tonnage
of such, boats, and shall also give a duplicate certificate to the
master or managing owner of said boat to be by him produced
for comparison to the clerk, aforesaid, at the time of applying
for license. It shall be the duty of the Commander of the
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he shall, duly authorize and empower at any time that he or
such duly authorized officer shall deem it proper to inspect
and verify the measurement of any boats and their
gross tonnage, and the measurement ascertained by the
said commander or officers shall be conclusive and final, and
any license granted shall be corrected and amended in accord-
ance with such measurement, and the appropriate license
fee hereinbefore named, paid in accordance with such
corrected measurement and the right granted by any such
license already issued shall be suspended until the full pay-
ment of such license fee is made ; provided, however, that no
certificate shall be required to procure a license for any boat
whose tonnage does not exceed six tons gross, custom-house
measurement ; but should a license be issued to such boat,
which afterwards, on measurements by the admeasurers or

Inspect and
verify
measurment.

said commander or his duly authorized officer as aforesaid, is
shown to be of greater tonnage than permitted or allowed
under the provisions of this Act, such license shall .be null
and void, and the party using such license, after notice given,
shall be deemed guilty of taking oysters without a license,
and shall be punished as is provided by Article 72 of the
Code of Public General Laws for that offense ; after the
certificate of the admeasurers shall be. filed with the respec-
tive clerks, and the applicant shall present to such clerk the

Null and
void.