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for the support of the National Guard, unless the said Motor
Corps is called out for service by the Governor in case of
emergency or necessity to aid the National Guard in quelling
insurrection, invasion, riot, or breach of the peace; when so
called upon the members of said organization shall first sign
and execute and deliver, through their commanding officer, to
the officer commanding the National Guard, to whom it is
ordered to report, a form of enlistment, to be prescribed by the
Governor, for a term of not less than thirty (30) days nor more
than ninety (90) days at one time, and if the service of said
Motor Corps shall not be required for the full term of their
enlistment they shall be discharged by the Governor. All
members of said organization, when called out into service
of the State, as herein provided, shall be equipped and paid
by the State and shall be protected in the discharge of their
duties and obeying the orders of the Governor, as though a
part of the National Guard of the State.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1908.

ARTICLE LXXII.

OYSTERS.

CHAPTER 104.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 23 of
Article 72 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland
of 1904, title "Oyster, " sub-title "Dredging. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 23 of Article 72 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Oysters, " sub-title
"Dredging, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 23. Before granting such license the Comptroller shall
receive two dollars and eighty-five cents for every gross ton the
boat shall measure, and where any license issued by authority
of any county, the clerk of the circuit court for the county shall
receive for such license from the applicant one dollar and
ninety cents per gross ton for every gross ton the boat may
measure, except boats of less than five tons gross measure-
ments, when the license shall be eight dollars for each of said
boats; said measurements to be grossed tonnage of Custom