J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                        353

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 293 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1963 Supplement), title "Natural Resources", subtitle "Fish and
Fisheries", subheading "Part 2. Tidal Waters", be and it is hereby-
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

293.

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] 9 inches; any catfish less than 8
inches; any perch, white or yellow, less than 8 inches, if taken or
caught in any manner other than by hook or line; any pike or walleyed
pike less than 14 inches; any rock, otherwise known as striped bass,
less than 12 inches in length or weighing more than 15 pounds, it
shall be lawful, however, in the Susquehanna River above Hog Back
Shoals and in all waters of the State of Maryland at any time of the
year except from March 1 to and including June 15 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 for
or offered for sale and not more than one per day for each person;
any sturgeon weighing less than 25 pounds, and taylor or bluefish
less than 8 inches; any sea trout or weakfish less than 10 inches;
any hardheads or croakers less than 10 inches; any butterfish less
than 6 inches; measurement in the case of each fish shall be from
the tip of the nose to the end of the caudal fin or tail.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1964.

Approved April 7, 1964.

CHAPTER 128
(House Bill 41)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 712(a)
and (b) of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition), title "Natural Resources", subtitle "Oysters and Clams",
to change the requirements for licensing to take or catch hard shell
clams in the State and to require sending to the State of a record
of all licenses issued to take or catch clams or to ship or market
clams.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 712(a) and (b) of Article 66C of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Natural Resources", subtitle
"Oysters and Clams", be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

712.

(a) Any person [between] over the age of fourteen [and sixty-
five] years desiring to take or catch clams for sale from the waters of
this State shall first obtain a license therefor from the clerk of the