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ART. XXXIX] CRABS. 285
in the business of picking, canning, packing or shipping cooked hard
or soft crabs or crab meat (except persons picking and selling crab meat
for local family trade), a license fee of $10.00; (2) For each person,
firm or corporation engaged in the business of selling, marketing or
shipping live hard or soft crabs by barrel or crate, a lincense fee of
$5.00; provided that any person who is duly licensed to ship or pack
crabs shall not be required to procure further license.
1916, ch. 544.
93C. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to catch, offer
for sale or hold in his or their possession at any time, any female 'crabs
bearing eggs visible thereon (sponge crabs) or any female crab from
which the egg pouch or bunion has been removed.
1916, ch. 544.
93D. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of
the f sections of this sub-title "Crabs," shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction before any Justice of the Peace in the County or
City in which he resides, shall be fined not less than $10. nor more than
$100., in the discretion of the Court. Upon failure to pay the fine the
convicted party may be imprisoned for not more than three months, or
until the fine be paid.
1906, ch. 148. 3916, ch. 544.
94. One-tenth of all crab license fees provided by this sub-title shall
be retained by the respective Clerks of the Courts issuing same, and the
remaining nine-tenths, together with all fines imposed under Section
93D for violation of any of the provisions of this law, shall be paid
into the "Conservation Fund," and shall be disbursed by the Conserva-
tion Commission so far as is necessary in paying the expenses incurred
by them in the protection or propagation of the crab supply of this State,
the balance, if any, to be used in the discretion of the Commission for
any of the objects under its control.*
1916, ch. 419. 1917, ch. 16.
94A. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take, catch
or have in his or their possession any hard crabs, other than one in the
peeler state, measuring less than five inches across the shell from tip to
tip of spike, or any peelers or soft crabs measuring less than three inches
across the shell from tip to tip of spike, nor shall any person or persons
take, catch or have in his or their possession any egg-bearing female
crab, known as the spawn crab, sponge crab, blooming female crab, or
mother crab, nor any female crab from which the egg pouch or bunion
has been removed, nor shall any person or persons take, catch or keep
in floats or in his or their possession any fat crab, or any crab known
fAs sections 94 and 94A are included under the sub-title "Crabs," the word
"preceding" should probably be interpolated here.
*Section 4 of the act of 1916. chapter 544, provides for the repeal of all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with said act of 1910.
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