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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.

104. (Worcester County.) It shall be unlawful for any person or per-
sons 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.

105. (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
a river from using such dividing river in common. All persons taking
or catching crabs tinder 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. 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
Baltimore '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,
crabbing with a trot line is prohibited by any except bona fide residents
of the counties bordering on the Patuxent River.

1935, ch. 480.

106. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch soft shell
crabs in the waters of the Patuxent River by net or seine, other than net
or seine with handle attached, without first obtaining a license from the
Clerk of the Circuit Court in which he resides and paying therefor the
sum of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), which license shall be good for the
year of issuance only. All the other provisions of this sub-title as to the
taking of crabs, unless otherwise provided in this section, shall apply to
the taking of crabs by net and seine with handle attached. Any person
violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor