WORCESTER COUNTY. 1205

construed to forbid any person from catching his own planted
oysters at any time or with any kind of instrument; provided,
however, that the County Commissioners of said county shall
be authorized to give special permission to any woman who has
no visible means of support to take or catch oysters without
license.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That each and every license issued
in conformity to the provisions of Section 1 of this Article,
shall state the name, color, age and residence of the person to
whom the license is to be granted; the number thereof and the
county in which the same is to be used, and every applicant for
such license shall pay to the Clerk of the Circuit Court where
such license may be granted, and before the issuing and deliv-
ery of the same, three and one-half dollars; the Clerk to re-
ceive fifty cents for each and every such license as a fee for is-
suing the same, including administering the oath when re-
quired. Two-thirds of the amount received for such 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 the white tongers to go to the white schools, and the
portion received from the colored tongers to go to the colored
schools, and the remaining third to be paid over by the Clerk
to the Comptroller of the State Treasury, to be credited to the
oyster fund.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That every applicant for license
as aforesaid shall be required to make oath or affirmation be-
fore 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 therein are strictly true; that he has been a bona fide resi-
dent of the county for twelve months next preceding his appli-
cation for said license, and that he will comply with and obey
all laws of this State and county regulating the taking or catch-
ing of oysters.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the Comptroller of the
Treasury shall cause to be printed and delivered to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for the said county the requisite number of
such blank licenses and take receipts for the same as for other
licenses furnished; and said Clerk 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 him, 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 him for such licenses, which amount the
said Comptroller shall place to the credit of the oyster fund.