1917 public laws – Ch.290 Sec.5

Strike out all of section fourteen of chapter eighty-four, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and insert in lieu thereof the following: Sec. 14 License Tax. The following license tax is hereby levied annually upon the different fishing appliances used in the waters of North Carolina: Anchor gill nets, twenty-five cents for one hundred yards or fraction thereof. Stake gill nets, ten cents for each hundred yards or fraction thereof. Drift gill nets, twenty-five cents for each hundred yards or fraction thereof. Pound nets, one dollar for each pound. Submarine pounds, or submerged trap nets, two dollars for each trap or pound. Shrimp trawl nets, twenty-five cents each. Seine drag nets and mullet nets under one hundred yards ana not over three hundred yards, fifty cents each. Seine drag nets and mullet nets over three hundred yards and under one thousand yards, seventy-five cents per one hundred yards or fraction thereof. Seine drag nets and mullet nets over one thousand yards,-one dollar per one hundred yards or fraction thereof. Fyke nets, twenty-five cents each. Tonging for oysters, the license tax shall be one dollar for each tonger. For taking escallops with rakes, tongs, scoops, or scrapes, one dollar for each person and for every person assisting or employed. For taking clams with rakes, tongs, scoops, or scrapes, one dollar for each person and for every person assisting or employed. And for other apparatus used in fishing, the license shall be the same as that for the apparatus or appliance which it most resembles for the purpose used. , License tax for all persons or dealers who purchase oysters or carry on the business of canning, packing, shucking, or shipping, five dollars. . License tax for all persons or dealers who purchase or carry on the business of canning, packing, shucking, or shipping escallops, five dollars. : License tax for all persons or dealers who purchase or carry on the business of packing or shipping fish, two dollars and fifty cents: Provided, the fisherman who pays a license.on nets to catch fish, and ships such fish as are caught in such licensed nets, shall not be liable for this tax. License tax for all persons or dealers who purchase or carry on the business of canning, packing, or shipping shrimp, two dollars and fifty cents: Provided, the fishermen who pay a license on nets to catch shrimp and ship only such shrimp as are caught in such licensed nets shall not be liable for this tax. License tax for all persons or dealets who purchase or carry on the business of packing or shipping crabs out of the State, five dollars: Provided, that no pound net shall be set in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean within the three-mile limit: Provided further, that hand nets of not less than one and one-eighth inch bar mesh may be used in New Hanover County, and that no order shall be made by the Fisheries Board derogatory of this section: Provided, further, that the tax levied by this act shall not apply to crabs and clams.