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paragraph, or section thereof so found unconstiutional
and invalid.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1,1952.

Approved March 28, 1952.

CHAPTER 35

(Senate Bill 69)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
288 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition—having been Section 58 of Article 39 in
the 1947 Supplement), title "Natural Resources," sub-
title "Fish and Fisheries," relating to the size of cat-
fish and white or yellow perch which may be caught in
the tidal waters of this State.

SECTION 1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 288 of Article 66C of the Annotated Gode of
Maryland (1951 Edition—having been Section 58 of
Article 39 in the 1947 Supplement), title "Natural Re-
sources," sub-title "Fish and Fisheries," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

288. No person shall catch or in any manner take or
kill, sell, offer to buy or sell or expose for sale, or have
in possession any bass, large or small mouth, less than 10
inches; any cat-fish less than [7] 8 inches; any perch,
white or yellow, less than [7] 8 inches; any pike less than
14 inches; any rock, otherwise known as striped bass, less
than 11 inches in length or weighing more than 15 pounds,
it shall be lawful, however, in the Susquehanna River
above Hog Back Shoals to catch striped bass weighing
more than fifteen (15) pounds, provided said striped bass
so taken are caught only with a hook and line and not sold
or offered for sale; any sturgeon weighing less than 25
pounds; any taylor or bluefish less than 8 inches; any sea
trout or weakfish less than 8 inches; any hardheads or
croakers less than 7 inches; any butterfish less than 6

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.