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this State for at least one year, to transfer the license to said pur-
chaser with the boat, provided said purchaser shall be a bona fide
resident of the county in which the dredge or rig is licensed or is to
be licensed for at least one year. Such license so transferred shall
entitle said purchaser to the same privileges of taking or catching
soft shell clams with hydraulic or mechanical dredge that the original
owner had before the assignment; provided both seller and purchaser
make oath to all facts, matters and things made in the application
for such license, and that the purchaser pay the Department the sum
of five dollars ($5.00), and the Department shall then certify on the
license that it has been validly transferred and the transfer fee paid.

(e)   Measurement of Rig.—Each boat or rig shall have but one
conveyor or elevator for taking soft shell clams. Each boat or rig
may be equipped with not more than one blade and one water mani-
fold, the width between the exterior jets thereon not to exceed thirty-
six (36) inches. The water jet pipe at each end of the manifold shall
be set parallel to, or inclined inward toward, the median vertical
longitudinal plane of the dredge.

(f)   Mufflers.—All hydraulic or mechanical clam dredges operating
under the provisions of this section shall have properly installed
mufflers on all engines used in the operation of said boat or hydraulic
or mechanical clam dredge. The Department may require such modi-
fications to the hydraulic or mechanical clam dredge and/or licensed
dredged boats as may be demonstrated to be in the public interest
through research in the Department of Research and Education and
recommended for adoption by the latter agency.

(g)   Display of License.—The captain, master or operator of any
licensed or mechanical dredge boat or rig for the taking of soft shell
clams shall always have such license on board his boat while the
same is in operation and shall exhibit the same whenever it shall be
requested by any duly authorized officer or employee of the De-
partment.

(h) Minimum Size of Shell Clams.—It shall be unlawful for any
person to have in his possession soft shell clams which contain more
than five percentum (5%) per bushel of such clams measuring less
than two (2) inches along the longest dimension across the shell.

(i) Time for Taking and Landing.—It shall be unlawful for any
person to take or catch, or attempt to take or catch, soft shell clams
on Sunday, or between sunset and sunrise on any other day, or to
land soft shell clams earlier than one hour before sunrise or later
than one hour after sunset.

(j) Prohibited Areas.—It is unlawful to take or catch, or attempt
to take or catch, soft shell clams with any hydraulic or mechanical
dredge, or with any other type of gear, as follows:

(1)    Within fifty (50) yards of any commercially productive oyster
area, unless herein especially waived or modified;

(2)    Within five hundred (500) yards of any occupied duck blind
where decoys are set out, during the legal waterfowl hunting season;

(3) Within fifty (50) feet of any bulkhead, wharf, pier structure
or appurtenance constructed or erected in, out in, over or under any
of the waters of Somerset County, or the waters of the Chesapeake