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(b) In Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, above Poole's Is-
land, March 15th to June 10th, both dates inclusive.

(c) In Chincoteague and Sinnepuxent Bays and their tribu-
taries, March 1st to May 31st, both dates inclusive.

(d) In Potomac River, March 1st to May 31st, both dates

inclusive.

(e) Provided that in any river, creek, cove or inlet where
the Conservation Department is engaged in collecting spawn

for hatching purposes, the Conservation Commissioner is here-
by authorized and empowered to make such rules and regula-
tions during the last ten days of the season as he may adopt
for the better protection of fish and the collection of spawn
for said hatching purposes; provided such rules and regula-
tions shall not shorten the season.

LICENSES.

Sec. 52. Any person desiring to engage in the business
of taking or catching fish for commercial purposes by the use of
any nets mentioned in this Article within the waters of the
State of Maryland, shall first obtain by application to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for the county wherein he may
reside, or the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Balti-
more City, a license therefor, and such license shall have effect
from the 1st day of January to the 31st clay of December,
inclusive, in the year in which it may have been obtained;
and provided further that such license shall not authorize the
taking or catching of fish except as provided for in this Article.

OATH OF APPLICANT.

Sec. 53. Every applicant for license to take or catch fish
for sale, under the provisions of this Article, shall be required
to make oath or affirmation before the clerk authorized to issue
the same, or before some justice of the peace or notary public,
on whose certificate of the taking of such oath or affirmation, the
clerk shall issue said license, that "the facts set forth in said
license are strictly true; that he has been a bona fide resident of
the State of Maryland for the twelve months preceding his ap-
plication for said license, " or if he be a non-resident of the State
but owner of land bordering on any of the tributary waters of
the State and is the owner of riparian rights provided for in
Section 22, then he shall set forth in such oath, "that he is