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of Dorchester or Talbot counties from using the 

 waters of the Choptank river in common. 



Sec. 18. And he it enacted^ That each and 

 every license to take or catch oysters for sale, 

 with rakes or tongs, shall state the name and 

 residence of the person to whom the same is to 

 be granted, the number, together with the length 

 to be obtained by top or over all, measurement 

 of the canoe or boat licensed, the county in 

 vfhicli the same is to be used and the period at 

 which said license will expire, and every ap- 

 plicant for such license shall pay to the Clerk 

 of the Court where such license may be granted, 

 and before the issuing and delivery of the same, 

 according to the following rates, viz : For any 

 boat measuring in length twenty feet or less, 

 the sum of two dollars; measuring from twenty 

 to twenty-five feet, the sum of three dollars ; 

 measuring from twenty-live to thirty feet, the 

 sum of four dollars ; and all over thirty feet, 

 including sloops under Custom House tonnage, 

 the sum of live dollars each, and all oysters 

 taken with rakes dr tongs shall be culled upon 

 the natural beds where they are taken ; the 

 amount received from tonging license to be 

 paid by the Clerk to the School Commissioners, 

 for the public schools in the respective coun- 

 ties where such license is issued; provided, the 

 sum received from white tongers shall go to 

 white schools, and the sum from colored tong- 

 ers shall go to the colored schools. 



State name 

 and residence. 



Rates to be 

 charged. 



19. And he it enacted^ That every ap- 

 plicant for license to use any canoe or other 

 boat in taking or catching oysters with rakes 

 or tongs, shall be required to make oath or 

 affirmation before the clerk authorized to issue 

 the same, or some Justice of the Peace, on 

 whose certificate of the taking of such oatli or 

 affirmation the clerk shall issue said license ; 

 that the facts set forth in said license are 

 strictly true ; that he has been a bona fide resi- 

 dent of the county for the twelve months next 



Make oath or 

 affirmation. 



