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CHAP. 358
Unlawful to
have
in possession
expose for
sale, or buy
certain kinds
of fish.
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78 o. No person shall have in possession, expose for sale,
sell or buy any of the aforesaid, alive or dead, in the city of
Baltimore or in any of the counties of this State during the
aforesaid respective closed season, or dates, except white perch,
between which it is made unlawful, by the preceding sections
of this Act, to catch or kill the same, or at any time, of any
size less than there is .provided, whether such fish so had in
possession, exposed for sale, sold or bought, shall have been
caught, trapped or in any other manner taken or killed in that
county or in any other county of this State, or in any other
State, Territory or county, under a penalty for having in pos-
session, exposing for sale, selling or buying of each such fish,
similar in amount respectively to that hereinbefore made and
provided for the illegal catching of the same ; but nothing in
this section contained shall be so construed as to prevent any
of the Fish Commissioners of this State, in pursuance of their
capacity as fish culturists, or any other person or corporation
which shall first obtain a certificate in writing from the State
game warden, to the effect that such persons or corporations is
engaged in the scientific culture or propagation of fish, from
having in his or its possession alive at any time, any fish for
the purpose of said scientific culture or propagation only, and
to obtain such certificate said persons or corporations must tile
with the State game warden an application and affidavit to the
truth and bona fides thereof, made by the person or officer of
the corporation requesting the same, and taken before any
officer competent to administer an oath in this State; and said
affidavit and application shall be retained and kept on file by
said State game warden, but the possession of any of the afore-
said fish during any of the aforesaid closed seasons or dates
between which it is hereinbefore made unlawful to catch or
trap the same, or any size less than lawful size, shall in every
instance be prima facie evidence of unlawful purpose or
streams in the State of Maryland.
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Repeal.
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SEC. 2. That all Acts or parts of Acts, and all sections and
parts of sections of the Code, both of General and Local
Laws, and all amendments of and additions and supplements
thereto, now in force iu the State of Maryland, inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act, with the exception only of
chapter 427 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, passed at the Session of 1896, be and the same are
hereby repealed ; provided, that nothing in this Act shall
apply to Frederick, Baltimore, Howard, Cecil, Kent, Queen
Anne's, Harford, St. Mary's, Wicomico, Charles, Talbot,
Worcester, Calvert or Somerset counties.
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