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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 en-
title the person obtaining 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 au-
thorize the taking or catching of crabs in any creek, cove,
fiver, 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 under the provision 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 Balti-
more 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 ex-
cept bona fide residents of the counties bordering on the
Patuxent River.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1933.

Approved April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 263:

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section
51 of Article 39 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1929 Supplement), title "Fish and Fisheries, " sub-
title "Part 2; Sizes of Commercial Fish, " providing for
the size of fish which may be taken, had in possession or
offered for sale.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Marylandf That Section 51 of Article 39 of Bagby's Anno-