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with a statement of the fines imposed and costs of the same;
the Justice of the Peace or Clerk, of the Court which imposes
said fine in any and every case shall in writing inform the
Comptroller of the Treasury of the fine, upon whom laid and
the amount of said fine, with date of same. Anyone who shall
violate any provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof before any
Judge or Justice of the Peace in this State, shall be fined not
less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than three hundred
dollars, in the discretion of the Court or Justice of the Peace
before whom such person shall be tried, or be imprisoned in
the county jail for not less than one month, nor more than six
months. And no part of a fine or cost so collected shall be
paid or allowed by the Court to any State's Attorney as a fee
where said State's Attorney receives a fixed salary for his
services.

19. No steamer or power boat of any kind shall be used or
employed in catching or taking oysters in the waters of the
State with scoop, dredge or similar instrument, and the cap-
tain of any boat licensed to take or catch oysters with scoop,
dredge or similar instrument, who shall have on his boat, so
licensed, any engine or motor of any kind, whether attached
to said boat or not, which is adapted to or can be used in the
propulsion of said boat, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dol-
lars nor more than three hundred dollars, and no other boat
shall be used in catching oysters with scoop, dredge or similar
instrument without first having been licensed, as hereinafter
provided.

23. After granting such license, the Comptroller shall re-
ceive 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 the said two
dollars and eighty-five cents per ton for every gross ton the
boat may measure, except boats of less than five tons gross
measurement, when the license shall be eight dollars for each
of said boats, said measurements to be gross tonnage of cus-
tom-house measurement, but no allowance or deduction shall
be made or allowed by reason of dunnaging, and the captains
or masters shall always have such license on board of their
boats, and shall exhibit the same wherever it shall be demanded
by any duly authorized officer. It shall be the duty of the
commander of the State Fishery Force and any officer under
his command, at any time that he or they shall deem it proper,
to inspect and verify the measurements of any boats, and their
gross tonnage and the measurement ascertained by such officer