1174 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

boat shall measure, except boats of less than four tons gross
measurement, when the license shall be eight dollars for each
of said boats, 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 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 meas-
urement to be gross tonnage of custom-house measurement; but
no allowance or deduction shall be made or allowed by reason of
dunnaging, and the captain or master 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 he or
they shall deem it proper, to inspect and verify the measure-
ments of any boats and their gross tonnage and the measure-
ment ascertained by such officer shall be conclusive and final;
any license granted shall be corrected and amended in accord-
ance with such measurements and the appropriate license fee
hereinbefore named paid in accordance with such corrected
measurement, and the right granted 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 ninety days after receiving the same, to be
by the said Comptroller credited to the oyster fund; and all
Acts and all Public General or Public Local Laws inconsistent
with the provisions of this Section be and the same are hereby
repealed.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 692.

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 58 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, title "Live Stock," to be known
as Section 40 and to appropriate $15,000.00 annually to pay
for any animals affected with any contagious or infectious
disease ordered slaughtered by the Chief Veterinary Inspector,
and to create and pay a live stock border patrol.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a Section to be known as Section 40 be added to