FISH AND FISHERIES. 237
PART 4.
Crabs.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 85. 1929, ch. 186, sec. 102.

93. Closed Season. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to
take, catch or gather hard shell crabs in. any of the waters of the State of
Maryland, except in the waters of Worcester County, between the first
day "of November and the first day of May next succeeding in each and
every year.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 85. 1929, ch. 186, sec. 102A.

94. Worcester County. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to take, catch or gather crabs in any of the waters of Worcester County be-
tween the first day of October and the first day of April next succeeding,
in each and every year.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 86.

95. Crabber's Licenses. Any resident of Maryland desiring to take or
catch crabs from the waters thereof for market, and each person working on
any boat used in taking or catching of crabs, shall first obtain a numbered
license from the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which he re-
sides, or from, the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, if he resides in
Baltimore City, and shall pay the sum of $2, and in addition thereto
twenty-five cents to the clerk of the Court for issuing same, which license
shall be good for the year of issuance only and shall entitle the person ob-
taining same to take or catch crabs by any of the methods now used, in-
cluding scrape, nets, dip nets or trot line. Provided, that such license
shall not authorize the talking or catching of crabs in any creek, cove, river,
inlet, bay or sound within the limits of any county other than that where-
in the license shall have been granted; provided that nothing in this sec-
tion shall be so construed as to prevent the citizens of counties divided by
a river from using such dividing river in common. All persons taking,
or catching crabs under the provisions of this Article shall exhibit their
license for so doing when required by any officer of the oyster police force,
or other officers of the State. Boys twelve years of age and under shall not,
be required to obtain a license. Non-residents of Maryland shall not be
permitted to catch crabs from the waters thereof for market. Residents of
Baltimore City may be licensed to catch crabs in Anne Arundel or Bal-
timore Counties. And providing further that in all the waters of the
Chesapeake Bay lying near the mouth of the Patuxent River, viz; that is
to say, those waters above a line drawn at Cedar Point in St. Mary's
County to Cove Point in Calvert County, and below a line drawn from,
Drum Point in Calvert County to Hog Point in St. Mary's County, crab-
bing with a trot line is prohibited by any except bona fide residents of the
counties bordering on the Patuxent River.