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PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS. 
Make oath 
or affirma- 
tion. 
To comply 
with laws. 
Right of 
appeal. 
Fines to 
be paid to 
sheriff. 
be allowed as a fee for the measurement of each 
boat the sum of fifty cents per ton for every ton 
said boat or vessel may measure. 
Sec. 7. And be it enacted , That any applicant for 
a license under the provisions of this act shall be 
required to make oath or affirmation before the Clerk 
of the Circuit Court of said county, or before any 
justice of the peace of said county, upon whose cer- 
tificate of the taking of such oath or affirmation the 
said clerk may issue said license as hereinbefore pro- 
vided ; the applicants shall set forth in said baths or 
affirmations, before obtaining said license, that he 
has been a bona fide resident of said county for the 
twelve months next preceding his application for 
said license, and that he intends to use said boat or 
vessel only in said county, and that he will comply 
with and obey all laws of this State regulating the 
catching of oysters ; and any person to whom said 
license shall have been granted shall paint the num- 
ber of his boat on each beam, near the gun-wales, 
or a white field with black letters, seven inches in 
length, and any person refusing to comply with this 
provision shall, on conviction before a justice of the 
peace for said county, be fined not less than five and 
not more than twenty dollars and costs, said fine to 
be paid into the treasury of the public school fund 
for said county. 
Sec. 8. And be it enacted , That any person who 
shall use any boat, canoe or other vessel without 
having been licensed as hereintofore provided, shall, 
upon conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, 
be fined not less than twenty-five or more than one 
hundred dollars, or forfeit the boat, canoe or vessel 
so offending, in the discretion of the justice trying 
[trying] the same ; provided that an appeal to the 
Circuit Court, with bond and approved security, 
shall be granted at any time within twenty days 
from the rendering of such decision by said justice 
of the peace. 
Sec. 9. And be it enacted , That all moneys arising 
from fines or forfeitures under this act, after the de- 
duction of all costs, shall be paid by the offender 
directly to the sheriff, or a deputy sheriff of the 
county, if present, if not, to the justice, and by them 
paid into and credited to the public school fund of 
