JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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license to catch oysters with scoops, scrapes or dredges, and
the said admeasurer acting together and in the presence of
each other shall as soon as notified and paid two dollars each
for each boat and travelling expenses and cost of certificate by
the captain or managing owner of such boats, proceed to meas-
ure and examine the same ; if after examining and measuring
such or boats, the admeasurers find that such boat is under
seven tons gross or under ten and fifty-two one-hundredths tons
gross, if such boat was licensed to take oysters with scoops,
scrapes or dredges in said waters for the season ending March
15, 1900, and no dunnage in any of said boats they shall,
under oath, certify to the clerk of said Court, giving the
tonnage of such boat, 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 said clerk at the time of
applying for said license. It shall be the duty of the com-
mander of the State Fishery Force or any officer under his

CHAP. 184.

command, whom he shall duly authorize and empower at any
time that he or any 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
measurements, and the right granted by any such license
already issued shall be suspended until the full payment 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 measure-
ment ; but should a license be issued to such boat, which after-
wards on measurements by the ad measurers or 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 a 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 respective clerks, and the applicants
shall present to such clerk the duplicate certificate hereinbefore
provided for, the clerks shall issue to said applicants a license

Inspect and
verify;
measurement

for said boat if all other requirements and conditions afore-
said herein provided shall be complied with ; whenever a boat
has once been measured and certified to by the admeasurers,
no second measurement or certificate shall be required, unless
good reasons exist to justify the belief on the part of the
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License
issued.