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fiscated under the direction of the Conservation Commissioner to the best
interests of the State.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 90.

99. Use of Power Prohibited in Boats Engaged in Scraping Crabs.
No person shall use any engine of any kind in or upon any boat or vessel,
while said boat or vessel is being used, or while said person is engaged in
scraping or scooping crabs in any of the waters of this State.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 91.

100. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of any section of
this sub-title "Crabs, " shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic-
tion before any justice of the peace qualified to try same, shall be fined
not less than $10. 00 nor more than $100. 00 and shall stand committed to
the County Jail or the Baltimore City Jail until such fine and costs are
paid.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 4.

101. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this Article shall,
for any reason, be adjudged by any Court of competent jurisdiction to
be unconstitutional and invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair
or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
to the clause, sentence, paragraph or section thereof so found unconstitu-
tional and invalid. ¹

Terrapins—Diamond Back and Salt Water. ²

1929, ch. 266, sec. 1.

102. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch or have in
possession in this State any salt water terrapin, diamond back terrapin, or
skilpots and sliders, between the first day of April and the thirty-first day
of October ill any year, both dates inclusive.

It shall be unlawful for any person to have in possession in this State
any terrapin mentioned in Section 102, during any closed season, taken or
caught within the State of Maryland or in any other state¹, territory or
country.

¹ Sec. 3 of ch. 471 of acts of 1929 is as follows: A11 acts or parts of acts, general or
local, passed by the session of the General Assembly of Maryland in the year 1929,
relating to or in any way affecting Article 39 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, title "Fish and Fisheries, " or in any manner amending or adding to said
article, as said article existed before the passage of this act, or in any way inconsist-
ent with this act, shall in no wise be affected by the passage of this act, but all such
laws shall have the same force and effect as if this act had not been passed.

Sec. 5 of said ch. 471 reads as follows: All laws or parts of laws, general or local,
pertaining to fish and fisheries (except terrapin and turtle, and except as in this act
provided), enacted prior to the Session of the General Assembly of Maryland in the
year 1929, be and the same are hereby repealed.

² This sub-title was formerly codified as article 92. It is now codified as part of
this article in order to have all of the laws relating to sea foods (except oysters)
in one article.