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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

counties from using the waters of the Chester river in common,
or the citizens of Dorchester and Wicomico counties from
using the water of Nanticoke river in common, or the citizens
of Queen Anne'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 Choptank river in common; provided, however, that the
County Commissioners shall be authorized to give special per-
mission to any woman who has no visible means of support,
to take and catch oysters without license; provided, also, that
boys under fifteen years of age shall not be required to license.

What license
to contain.

2. Each and every license to take or catch oysters for sale
with rakes or tongs, shall state the name, age and residence of
the person to whom the same is to be granted, the number and
the county in which the same is to be used, and every appli-
cant for such license shall pay to the clerk of the circuit court,
when such license may be granted and before the issuing and

Cost of
license.

delivery of the same, the sum of three and a-half dollars,
except boys under fifteen years of age, the clerk to receive
twenty-five cents for each and every tonging license so issued
as a fee for issuing the same, including administering the oath
when required; two-thirds of the amount received for tonging
licenses, shall be paid by the clerk to the school commissioners
for the use of the public schools in the respective counties
where such licenses are issued, and of this amount the portion
received from white tongers, to go to the white schools, and
the portion received from colored tongers, to go to the colored
schools, and the remaining one-third to be paid over by the
clerk to the Comptroller of the State treasury to be credited
to the oyster fund.

3. Every applicant for license to take or catch oysters with

Oath of
applicant.

rakes or tongs, shall be required to make oath or affirmation
before the clerk authorized to issue the same, or some justice
of the peace, on whose certificate of the taking of such oath
or affirmation, the clerk shall issue said license; that the facts
set forth in said license are strictly true; that he has been a
bona fide resident of the county for twelve months next pre-
ceding his application for said license; that he desires and
intends to use said license in the county in which he resides,
or the waters used in common, as herein provided in this
article, and that he will comply with and obey all the laws of
this State, regulating the taking or catching of oysters.