ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1203

county in which he resides or does business, or from the clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas if he resides or does business
in Baltimore City, such license to be good for the year of issue
only, and shall pay the following 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; (2) for each person, firm or cor-
poration engaged in the business of selling, marketing or
shipping live hard or soft crabs by barrel or crate, a license
fee of $5; provided that any person who is duly licensed to
ship or pack crabs shall not be required to procure further
license.

Sec, 88. Sponge Crabs. It shall be unlawful for any per-
son to catch, offer for sale or hold in his 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.

Sec. 89. Regulations on Certain Kinds and Sizes of Crabs.
It shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch or have in
his possession any hard crabs, measuring less than five inches
across the shell from tip to tip of spike, or any peelers (which
are hereby defined as having a soft shell fully developed under
the hard shell, on which there is a pink line or rim on the edge
of that part of the back fin next to the outer section of this
fin) measuring less than three inches across the shell from
tip to tip of spike, or any soft crabs measuring less than three
and one-half inches across the shell from tip to tip of spike;
nor shall any person take, catch or have in his possession any
egg-bearing female crab, known as the spawn crab, sponge
crab, blooming female crab, or mother crab, nor any female
crab from which the egg pouch or bunion has been removed,
nor shall any person take, catch or keep in floats or in his
possession any fat crab, or any crab known as snot crab or
green crab, or buckram crab (a crab that has a paper shell).
The provisions of this section shall apply to all waters of the
State of Maryland, and any person violating any provisions
of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon
conviction be fined as hereinafter provided, and in addition
thereto the Deputy Commanders and Inspectors of the State
Fishery Force are hereby authorized to confiscate and liberate
into the waters of the State any fat crab, snot crab, green
crab, or buckram, crab wherever found and held in violation