1678 ARTICLE 39

1936 (Sp. Sess.), ch. 137. 1937, ch. 280.

110. The Conservation Commission shall have the power and au-
thority to prohibit the taking of hard crabs in any of the waters of Mary-
land, except in the waters of Worcester County, during the month of
November, in each year, provided that the Commission shall give season-
able public notice of such prohibition, and provided further that the Com-
mission shall find such prohibition necessary or advisable in the interest
of conservation.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 90.

111. (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.

112. (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.

113. 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

Clams.

1931, ch. 431, sec. 101. 1933 (Special Sess.), ch. 75, sec. 101A. 1935, ch. 223.
1936 (Sp. Sess.), ch. 110.

114. Any resident or land owner of Maryland desiring to take or catch
clams from the waters of Worcester County for sale shall first obtain a
license from the clerk of the court of said county and shall pay the sum of
$2.50, and in addition thereto 25 cents to the clerk of the court for issuing
same.

Said license shall be good for the year of issuance only.

All persons taking and catching clams under the provisions of this sec-
tion shall exhibit their license whenever required to do so by any officer
of the Conservation Department or other officer of the State.

¹ Sec. 3 of ch. 471 of acts of 1929 is as follows: All 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 inconsis-
tent 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.