314 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 159

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety and having been passed by a yea and nay vote,
supported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland,
the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1953.

CHAPTER 159
(Senate Bill 127)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
658 (a) of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition), title "Natural Resources", sub-title
"Oysters and Clams", increasing the amount of oyster
shells oyster packers shall turn over to the State from
twenty percent (20%) to fifty percent (50%).

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 658 (a) of Article 66C of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Natural Resources",
sub-title "Oysters and Clams", be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

658 (a). (Oyster Packers and Dealers). Packers and
Dealers' License. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation having a fixed place of business, buying
oysters and employing labor to prepare them for market
to engage in the business of buying, selling, marketing,
packing or canning oysters without first taking out a
license to engage in such business by application to the
Commission of Tidewater Fisheries of Maryland. Where
any such person, firm or corporation operates more than
one house for the buying, selling, marketing, packing or
canning of oysters, a separate license shall be obtained for
each house in which oysters are shucked or otherwise pre-
pared for market: such license to be in the nature and
form of a contract between the State of Maryland and the
applicant, and shall provide for the payment of a license
fee of Twenty-five Dollars ($25. 00), and shall further pro-
vide that the licensee shall turn over to the State of Mary-

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[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
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