1120 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 544

fees: (1) For each person, firm or corporation engaged in
the business of picking, canning, packing or shipping cooked
hard or soft crabs or crab meat (except persons picking and
selling crab meat for local family trade), a license fee of
$10. 00; (2) For each person, firm or corporation engaged in
the business of selling, marketing or shipping live hard or
soft crabs by barrel or crate, a license fee of $5. 00; provided
that any person who is duly licensed to ship or pack crabs
shall not be required to procure further license.

Section 93-C. It shall be unlawful for any person or per-
sons to catch, offer for sale or hold in his or their possession
at any time, any female crabs bearing eggs visible thereon
(sponge crabs) or any female crab from which the egg pouch
or bunion has been removed.

Section 93-D. Any person, firm or corporation violating
the provisions of the sections of this sub-title "Crabs, " shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction before any
Justice of the Peace in the County or City in which he resides,
shall be fined not less than $10. nor more than $100., in the
discretion of the Court. Upon failure to pay the fine the
convicted party may be imprisoned for not more than three
months, or until the fine be paid.

Section 94. One-tenth of all crab license fees provided by
this sub-title shall be retained by the respective Clerks of the
Courts issuing same, and the remaining nine-tenths, together
with all fines imposed under Section 93-D for violation of any
of the provisions of this law, shall be paid into the "Conserva-
tion Fund, " and shall be disbursed by the Conservation Com-
mission so far as is necessary in paying the expenses incurred
by them in the protection or propagation of the crab supply of
this State, the balance, if any, to be used in the discretion of
the Commission for any of the objects under its control.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the section now
known as Section 94 of Article 39 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (Bagby's Edition) be and the same is hereby re-
pealed

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on June 1st, 1916, and that all acts or parts of acts in-
consistent with the provisions of this Act be and the same are
hereby repealed.

Approved April 18th, 1916.