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629 I. All laws or parts of law which require any per-
mits or impose any restrictions or conditions of any kind upon
the establishment or maintenance of farms for prison labor
in any county or counties of this State, are hereby repealed
to the extent that the same apply or could be construed to
apply to the farm for prison labor authorized by this Act.

629 J. Neither the provisions of this Act nor of Chapter
556 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1916
shall apply to the Baltimore City Jail.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public safety, and being passed
upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its pas-
sage.

Approved June 27th; 1917.

CHAPTER 16.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 419
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1916,
title "An Act to regulate the taking or catching of crabs in
the waters of Somerset County," so as to make said law
applicable to all the waters of the State, and to provide a
penalty for violation thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Chapter 419 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland of 1916 be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take, catch
or have in his or their possession any hard crabs, other than one
in the peeler state, measuring less than five inches across the
shell from tip to tip of spike, or any peelers or soft crabs