1206                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 707

(k) Transfer of Boat and License—It shall be lawful for the owner
of any licensed shinnecock rake boat, whenever said owner shall sell
and convey by bill of sale for a bona fide consideration such boat to
any person who has been a resident of the County for which said boat
is so licensed for at least one year, to transfer said license to said
purchaser with said boat. Such license so transferred shall entitle
the purchaser to the same privileges of taking or catching hard shell
clams with shinnecock rake that the original owner had before such
assignment; provided both seller and purchaser appear before the
Commission of Tidewater Fisheries and make oath or affirmation to
all facts, matters and things made in the application for such license
and that the purchaser pay said Commission the sum of Five Dollars
($5.00), and said Commission shall certify on the license that such
sum has been paid.

(5)  Size of Rake—The Commission of Tidewater Fisheries is
hereby empowered to make rules and regulations and to modify the
same, from time to time, to regulate the size of shinnecock rakes, or
similar devices, used in taking hard shell clams.

(6)  Season—It shall be unlawful to take or catch clams by shinne-
cock rake, or similar device, except from the fifteenth day of Novem-
ber in each year to the fifteenth day of March next succeeding, both
dates inclusive.

(7)  Authority To Reserve Breeding Areas—The Commission of
Tidewater Fisheries is authorized to close any portion of the natural
hard shell clam beds and to prohibit the taking or catching of hard
shell clams thereon by any means whenever in the judgment of the
Commission it shall seem necessary to protect or promote the growth
of hard shell clams on said natural beds.

(8)  Procedure of Closing an Area—Before closing any hard shell
clam area the Department of Tidewater Fisheries shall first give
notice by at least one advertisement in a newspaper of its intention
to close said area. Said notice shall describe the area to be closed
and the proposed date of closing, and shall be published in a news-
paper of general circulation in the county where such area is located.
No area may be closed, however, until the lapse of forty-eight hours
after the publication of said notice.

(9)  Reopening and Reclosing an Area—After closing an area the
Department of Tidewater Fisheries is authorized to reopen said area
whenever, in the judgment of the Commission of Tidewater Fisheries,
such reopening is advisable. An area shall be reopened by notice of
such reopening published in the same newspaper or newspapers that
published the notice or notices of closing; provided, however, no area
shall be reopened until a lapse of forty-eight hours from the publica-
tion of the notice of reopening. The Commission of Tidewater Fish-
eries shall have authority to close immediately by oral or written
notification to shinnecock rake clammers any area which has been
reopened.

(10)   Taking or Catching Hard Shell Clams in Closed Areas—It
shall be unlawful to take or catch hard shell clams with any device,
upon any area which has been closed by rule or regulation of the Com-
mission of Tidewater Fisheries.