ALBERT C.. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 233
CHAPTER 145.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 26.
of Article 72 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title, "Oysters, " sub-title "Dredging, " said amendments pro-
viding for an increase in the license for boats used for dredging
and scraping and providing for a different division of the funds
derived from the issuance of said licenses.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 26 of Article 72 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, title "Oysters, " sub-title "Dredg-
ing, " said amendments providing for an increase in the license
for boats used for dredging and scraping and providing for a
different division of the funds derived from the issuance of said
licenses, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

SEC. 26. After granting such license, the Comptroller shall
receive three dollars and fifty cents for every gross ton the
boat shall measure, except boats of less than four tons gross
measurement, when the license shall be eleven dollars and
fifty cents 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 appli-
cant two dollars and fifty 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 eleven dollars and fifty
cents for each of said boats, said measurement to be gross ton-
age of custom House measurement; but no allowance or deduc-
tion 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 de-
manded 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 prop-
er, to inspect and verify the measurements of any boats and
their gross tonnage and the measurements ascertained by such
officer shall be conclusive and final; any license granted shall be
corrected and amended in accordance 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-half 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