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shall be conclusive and final; and any license granted shall be
corrected and amended in accordance with such measurements
and the appropriate license fee hereinbefore named paid in ac-
cordance with such corrected measurement, and the right grant-
ed by any license already issued shall be suspended until the
full payment of such license fee is made. And one-third of
any license fee received by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
any county in this State shall be paid to the Comptroller of
the State Treasury by the said Clerk within thirty days after
receiving the same, to be by the said Comptroller credited to
the oyster fund, and all Acts or parts of Acts, and all public
.general or public local laws inconsistent with the provisions
of this section be and the same are hereby repealed.

31. The Comptroller shall have painted in black figures on
white canvas one number corresponding to the license to catch
oysters with scoop, scrape, dredge or other similar instru-
ments; each figure shall be twenty-two inches in length and of
proportionate width, and the figures at least six inches apart;
and. he shall give to each person taking out such license one
number thereof, which shall be securely sewed upon the star-
board side and in the middle of that part of the mainsail
which is above the close reef; this number shall be placed in
an upright position and worn at all times during the dredging
season, and returned at the end of the season, and shall not
be concealed or defaced, and no other number shall be exposed
to view or used than that which is furnished by the Comp-
troller. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided
in Section 16 of this Article; and in any such case the boat
or vessel shall hje forfeited and condemned, in the discretion
of the Judge, in the manner as provided in Section 28. The
provisions of this section shall apply to all boats licensed to
take oysters with scrape or scoop by any county in this State,
except that the numbers for such boats shall be painted red in-
stead of black; and the numbers shall be delivered by the
Comptroller to the Clerks of the Courts as they may be or-
dered ; and at the end of the season all licenses not used shall
be returned by said Clerks to the Comptroller; and the said
Clerks shall also pay to the Comptroller one-half of all moneys
received by him for such licenses, which sum shall be placed to
the credit of the oyster fund.

69. It shall be the duty of the Commander of the State
Fishery Force, at the commencement of, or during the oyster
season in each year, to appoint from the counties producing
oysters for packing purposes in the State, not exceeding
twenty, special inspectors, to be appointed as follows: Two
each from Anne Arundel, St. Mary's, Talbot and Wicomico