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PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS. 
Failing to 
comply. 
License to 
be printed. 
Prohibited 
Monies. 
cense shall have been granted shall paint the num- 
ber of his canoe or boat on the outside thereof, near 
the gunwale, in black figures, and not less than three 
inches in length and of proportionate width, in a 
white ground ; and no number other than that in 
the said license shall be exposed to view on said ca- 
noe or boat ; and any person failing to comply with 
this provision before using said boat or canoe for the 
purpose aforesaid shall, on conviction thereof be- 
fore a justice of the peace, be fined not less than five 
dollars nor more than ten ; and any person who may 
refuse to pay said fine shall be committed to the 
county jail for the period of thirty days or until said 
fine be paid. 
Sec. 20. And be it enacted , That the Comptroller 
of the Treasury shall cause to be printed and deliv- 
ered to the clerks of the Circuit Courts of the sev- 
eral counties, the requisite number of such blank li- 
censes, and take receipts for the same as for other 
licenses furnished; and the said clerks shall, on the 
first Monday of March and December in each year, 
return to the Comptroller a list and account of such 
licenses issued by them ; and no licenses to take or 
catch oysters with rakes or tongs shall be issued to 
any boat or vessel which is licensed to take or catch 
oysters with scoop, drag, dredge or any similar in- 
strument. 
Sec. 21. And be it enacted , That if any person 
shall use any canoe or boat not licensed as required 
by the preceding sections of this article in taking 
or catching oysters with rakes or tongs except for 
private use, he shall, upon conviction thereof before 
a justice of the peace for the county wherein the 
offence has been committed, be fined not less than 
twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, and in 
case of a refusal to pay said fine said party shall be 
committed to the county jail for six months or until 
said fine be paid. 
Sec. 22. And be it enacted , That all moneys arising 
from the sale of licenses or from fines, penalties and 
forfeitures imposed under this article shall, upon 
warrant of the Comptroller, be paid into the Treas- 
ury and placed to the credit of the oyster fund ; and 
the Comptroller is hereby required to state in his 
annual report particularly the receipts and expendi- 
