820 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Commissioners for the benefit of the public schools, and the
other half shall be paid without delay to the Board of County
Commissioners to be applied to the Road Fund. Such Justice
of the Peace shall append to his list of fines and credits an
affidavit that the said lists is a full, true and correct list of all
the fines collected by him.

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

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 522.

AN ACT to fix and regulate the time of taking or catching
oysters with rakes or tongs in the waters of Dorchester Coun-
ty and in the Choptank River, in Dorchester and Talbot
Counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That any resident of Dorchester County desiring to take
or catch oysters with rakes or tongs for sale in any of the
waters of Dorchester County, shall first obtain, by application
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dorchester County a sep-
arate license for every person to be employed on such boat;
and that any resident of Dorchester or Talbot Counties desir-
ing to take or catch oysters with rakes or tongs for sale in
the water of the Choptank River within said Counties shall
first obtain, by application to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of the County wherein he may reside, a separate license for
every person to be employed on such boat, and such license
shall have effect from the first day of October in the year in
which it has been obtained until the twenty-fifth day of April,
inclusive, next succeeding; except in the Choptank River in
said Counties wherein it shall effect from the 15th day of Sep-
tember; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed
as to prevent the citizens of Dorchester and Talbot Counties
obtaining an oyster license under this Act from using the
waters of the Choptank River in common, or the citizens of
Dorchester and Wicomico Counties from using the waters of
the Nanticoke River in common.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That all Acts or parts of Acts,
general or special, inconsistent with any of the provisions of
this Act be and the same are hereby repealed in so far as they
are inconsistent with this Act.