1202 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 471

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take, catch,
or gather hard shell crabs in any of the waters of Worcester
County between the 1st day of October and the 31st day of
March, both dates inclusive, next succeeding, in each and every
year.

Sec. 86. Crabber's Licenses. Any resident of Maryland
desiring to take or catch crabs from the waters thereof for mar-
ket, and each person working on any boat used in taking or
catching of crabs, shall first obtain a numbered license from
the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which he re-
sides, or from the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, if he
resides in Baltimore City, and shall 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 issu-
ance only and shall entitle 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 authorize the taking or catching of crabs in any creek,
cove, river, 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 provisions 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.
Boys twelve years of age and under shall not be required to ob-
tain a license. 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 Baltimore 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 except bona fide
residents of the counties bordering on the Patuxent River.

Sec. 87. Packers and Shippers Licenses. Any person de-
siring to engage in the business of picking, canning or packing
crabs in any way, or buying or marketing crabs, shall first
obtain a license from the clerk of the circuit court for the