1916] OF THE SENATE. 325

Also favorably

SENATE BILL No. 205, BY MR. SHEPHERD.

SUBJECT: REFUND TO CERTAIN CORPORATIONS,
TAXES ERRONEOUSLY PAID.

[Which favorable report was adopted, which was read the
second time and ordered printed for a third reading. ]

Also favorably, with amendments,

SENATE BILL No. 157, BY MR. LEGG.

SUBJECT: STATE FISHERY FORCE—CRABS.

Amendments proposed by Finance Committee: No. 1—"In
Section 93-A, page 2, line 10 of the printed Bill, strike out
the figure '$2' and insert in lieu thereof the figure '$1. ' "

No. 2—"In Section 93-A, page 2, line 15 of the printed Bill,
strike out the figure '$2' and insert in lieu thereof the figure
'$1. '"

No. 3—"In Section 93-A, page 2, lines 15 to 22 of the printed
Bill, strike out the words 'The Conservation Commission of
Maryland shall supply sufficient license numbers to the various
Court Clerks above mentioned, and said Clerks when issuing
such licenses shall furnish each licensee a set of figures cor-
responding to the number of his license. Every person licensed
to catch soft or hard crabs shall place or mark his license
number upon the starboard prow or foresail of the boat used
by him in conspicuous figures not less than four inches high, '

and insert in lieu thereof the words 'Provided, that such
license shall not authorize the taking or catching of crabs in
any creek, cove, river, inlet, bay or sound within the limit of
any county other than that wherein the license shall have been
granted; and that the boundaries of the counties or navigable
waters shall be strictly construed so as not to permit the
residents of either county to take or catch crabs beyond the
middle of the dividing channel; provided that nothing in this
section shall be so construed as to prevent the citizens of
Queen Anne's and Kent counties from using the waters of
Chester River in common, or the citizens of Dorchester and
Wicomico counties from using the waters of Nanticoke River
in common, or the citizens of Queen Anne's and Talbot coun-
ties from using the waters of Wye River and the mouth thereof
in common, or the citizens of Dorchester and Talbot counties
from using the waters of the Choptank River in common, or
the citizens of Calvert and St. Mary's counties from using the
waters of the Patuxent River and its tributaries in common. "