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of Talbot County for not less than six months immediately preceding
the first day of the tonging season].

(c)  Every applicant for a tonging license shall be required to
appear before the clerk of the circuit court of the county or a notary
public in and for said county wherein he is applying, and make oath
or affirmation that the facts which he shall set forth are strictly true;
that he has been a bona fide resident of the county for twelve months
next preceding his application for said license; that he desires and
intends to use said license in the county in which he resides or in the
waters used in common by his own and other counties; and that he
will comply with and obey all laws of this State regulating the taking
or catching of oysters with tongs or patent tongs; provided,
however, that any duly ordained minister of the gospel shall not be
subject to the residence requirements of this section.

(d)  When the applicant has taken the oath described in subsection
(c) of this section, either before the clerk of court or a notary public,
and has paid license fee of twelve dollars ($12.00) and twenty five
FIFTY cents as clerk's fee, the clerk of the circuit court of the county
wherein the applicant is applying shall issue a carbon copy of the
application, which shall serve as a temporary tonging license au-
thorizing the person licensed to take or catch oysters with tongs or
patent tongs for a period of fifteen (15) days from the date of
application, subject to the further regulations or restrictions provi-
ded in this subtitle. The clerk shall within forty-eight (48) hours
forward the original copy of the application to the Department of
Chesapeake Bay Affairs, which agency shall issue a tonging license
to the applicant by certified mail.

(e)  Each and every tonging license issued in conformity with the
provisions of this subtitle shall state the full name, [color] social
security number, age, residence of the person to whom the license is
granted, the number of the license and the name of the county in
which the application was made. The same information, excepting
the number of the license, shall appear on the application for license.

(f)  The [Comptroller of the treasury] Department of Chesapeake
Bay Affairs shall cause to be printed and delivered to the clerks of the
circuit courts of the counties the requisite number of [blank licenses
and shall take receipts for the same as for other licenses furnished;
and the said clerks shall on the first Monday of March and December
of each year return to the Comptroller a list and account of such
licenses issued by them, and at the end of each tonging season shall
return all unused licenses to the Comptroller. All such licenses shall
be printed and completed in such manner as to provide a copy of each
license issued for the files of the Department of Tidewater Fisheries
and said clerks shall transmit such copies to the Department of
Tidewater Fisheries, during the first week of the month following
issue] license applications forms.

(h) After subtraction of the clerks' fee, all moneys received by
clerks of the circuit courts shall be paid by said clerks to the Comp-
troller of the treasury to be credited to [general funds] the Fisheries
Research and Development Fund.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved April 10, 1968.