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and July in each and every year. It shall also be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to sell or offer to sell, purchase or offer to pur-
chase or to have in possession any black bass during said months, whether
said fish be caught in tidal or non-tidal waters within the State of Mary-
land, or the waters of any other State and brought into this State; pro-
vided, however, that anglers catching said fish during the month of July
in non-tidal waters of the State, under the provisions of Section 81¹ of
Article 39 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, shall be
entitled to the possession of said fish so caught.

1929, ch. 180, sec. 2.

68. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver to any private or
common carrier for transportation, or for any private or common carrier
to accept for transportation, or for any person to transport or carry or cause
to be transported or carried by any means whatsoever, any black bass into
or from the State of Maryland, during the months of April, May, June
and July in each and every year.

1929, ch. 180, sec. 3.

69. During the open season, it shall be unlawful for any person to
catch, take or kill in any manner, or have in possession any black bass less
than ten (10) inches in length. It shall be unlawful, during the open
season, for any person to catch by means of rod, hook and line, more than
twenty (20) black bass in any one day.

1929, ch. 180, sec. 4.

70. Any person convicted before any Justice of the Peace of this State
for violation of any of the provisions of this sub-title shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than $25. 00 nor more than
$200. 00 and costs for each and every offense in addition to the forfeitures
provided for elsewhere in Article 39. The fines and forfeitures recovered
for violation of this sub-title shall be paid over to the State Comptroller
and credited to the Conservation Fund.

1920, ch. 180, sec. 2.

70A. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this sub-title
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. ²

¹ Sec. 71 of this article.

² Sec. 3 of ch. 180 of acts of 1929 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.