494 ARTICLE 39.

from Youghiogheny Hydro-Electric Corporation and the Eastern Land
Company to the State of Maryland for the use of Conservation Depart-
ment of the area involved, nor to affect in any manner the rights, privi-
leges and reservations of the lessors therein.

1927, ch. 532, sec. 13. 1929, ch. 131, sec. 13.

92. This sub-title shall continue in force only during the continuance
of the lease from the Youghiogheny Hydro-Electric Corporation and the
Eastern Land Company to the State of Maryland or any renewal or re-
newals of said leases. ¹

PART 4.
Crabs.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 85. 1929, ch. 186, sec. 102. 1933. ch. 371, sec. 93.

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 December and the first day of May next succeeding in each
and every year.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 85. 1929, ch. 186, sec. 102A. 1933, ch. 371, sec. 94. 1935, ch. 337.

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
between the first day of December and the first day of April next suc-
ceeding, in each and every year.

1929, ch 471, sec. 86. 1933, ch. 262.

95. Crabbers' Licenses. Any resident of Maryland between the ages
of twelve (12) and sixty-five (65) 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 resides, or
from the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, if he resides in Balti-
more 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,
including scrape, nets, dip nets or trot line. Provided, that such license
shall not authorize the taking or catching of crabs in any creek, cove, river,
inlet, bay or sound within the limits of any county other than that wherein
the license shall have been granted; provided that nothing in this section
shall be so construed as to prevent the citizens of counties divided by

¹ Sec. 11 of ch. 131 of acts of 1929 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.