FRANK BROWN, ESQURE, GOVERNOR.

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4. The Comptroller of the Treasury shall cause to be printed
and delivered to the clerks of the circuit courts for the several
counties the requisite number of such blank licenses, and take
receipts for the same as for other licenses furnished; and said
clerks shall, on the first Monday of March and December of
each year, return to the Comptroller a list and account of such
licenses issued by them, and at the end of each tonging season,
shall return all unused licenses to him, and shall pay over to
the Comptroller one-third of the amount received by them for
such licenses, which amount the said Comptroller shall place
to the credit of the " Oyster Fund; " and no license to take
or catch oysters with rakes or tongs shall be used on any boat
or vessel which is licensed to take or catch oysters with scoop,
drag, dredge or any similar instrument during the season for
which such boat or vessel is licensed; and all licenses shall
expire at the end of the season.

Comptroller
to furnish
blank
licenses.

5. If any person shall take oysters with rakes or tongs, for
sale, without first having obtained a license as required by the
preceding sections of this article, he shall upon conviction
thereof before a justice of the peace for the county wherein
the offence has been committed, be fined not less than twenty

Catching
oysters
without
license.

nor more than one hundred dollars, and stand committed to
the county jail till all costs and fines are paid; and in any such
case the boat or vessel used by him shall be forfeited, and may
be condemned, in the discretion of the judge or justice of the
peace, in the manner provided in section 23. All persons
taking or catching oysters under the provisions of this article
shall exhibit their authority for so doing when required by any
officer of the Oyster Police Force, or other officers of the
State.

Penalty.

6. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to use or
employ any boat or canoe who has not first obtained a license
to take or catch oysters with rakes or tongs in the waters of
Talbot, Queen Anne's, Anne Arundel and Dorchester counties,
in taking or catching oysters with any implements or device
other than ordinary rakes or tongs with wooden shafts, to be
used entirely by hand, and without any ropes or hoisting gear
whatever. Any person or persons violating the provisions of
this section shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in the
preceding section for taking oysters with rakes or tongs without
license.

7. That all oysters taken from any of the waters of this
State, either with scoops, dredges, or any similar instrument, or

Unlawful to
take oysters
in any way
without
license.