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provisions of this section shall be subject to like 

 penalties as are prescribed by the preceding 

 sections of this act. 



Sec. 11. A.nd he it enacted^ That every ap- 

 plicant for license under this act, to use any 

 canoe or other boat, in catching oysters for 

 sale, with rakes or tongs, shall be required to 

 Required to Hiake oatli or affirmation, before the clerk au- 



makeoath. thorlzed to Issue tlie same, or some Justice of 

 the Peace of the county, on whose certificate 

 of the taking such oath or affirmation the clerk 

 shall issue such license; said oath or affirmation 

 shall assert that he has been a resident-citizen 

 of the county for the twelve months next pre- 

 ceding his application, the length of the boat 

 or canoe to be used ; that he is the bona tide 

 owner of said boat or canoe ; that he will not 

 violate the provisions of this act ; that he will 

 arrest and seize, or assist in arresting and seiz- 

 ing all persons and boats, vessels and equip- 

 ments engaged in violating the provisions of 

 this act, so far as it may in his power to do so, 

 and that he will not employ or permit any per- 

 , son to use his boat or canoe so licensed, on hire 

 or shares, who has not been a bona fide resident 

 citizen of the county for the twelve months 

 next preceding such employment or permission 

 to use, and that he Avill inform against and 

 prosecute all persons who shall violate this or 

 any other provision of this act. The penalty 

 for violating any of the provisions of this sec- 

 Penaity for tlou shall be uot less than ten dollars, nor more 



violation. than fifty dollars, to be recovered before a Jus- 

 tice of the Peace of the county, and said fine 

 and costs of prosecution shall be a lien upon 

 the boat and equipments of the offending party, 

 which, unless paid within ten days after judg- 

 ment, shall be sold under orders and notice 

 prescribed by the Justice of the Peace for the 

 payment of such fine and costs, one-half of 

 such tine to be paid to the County School Com- 

 missioners, and the other half to the informer. 



