WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 97

Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Oysters and Clams",
as said sub-section was enacted by Chapter 929 of the Acts
of 1945, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

9.

(a). Packers' and Dealers' License. It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation having a fixed place of
business, buying oysters and employing labor to prepare
them for market to engage in the business of buying, sell-
ing, marketing, packing or canning oysters without first tak-
ing out a license to engage in such business by application
to the Commission of Tidewater Fisheries of Maryland.
Where any such person, firm or corporation operates more
than one house for the buying, selling, marketing, packing
or canning of oysters, a separate license shall be obtained
for each house in which oysters are shucked or otherwise
prepared for market; such license to be in the nature and
form of a contract between the State of Maryland and the
applicant, and shall provide for the payment of a license fee
of Twenty-five Dollars ($25. 00), and shall further provide
that the licensee shall turn over to the State of Maryland
at least twenty percent (20%) of the shells from the oysters
shucked in his establishment for the current season, said
shells to be removed on or before the twentieth day of August
following; or at the discretion of the Commission, its equiva-
lent in money, the value thereof being determined at the
market value of shells as of the first day of May following
the close of the season. The said Department shall notify each
packer or canner on or before the first day of May whether it is
its intention to take the twenty percent (20%) of the shells
from oysters shucked as aforesaid, or its equivalent in money.
Said license shall have effect from the first day of September
in the year in which it may have been obtained until the
twenty-fifth day of April, inclusive, next succeeding.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1948.

Approved November 10, 1947.

CHAPTER 35.

(Senate Bill 40)

AN ACT to add six new sections to Article 6 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Caro-
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