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705.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation hav-
ing 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 Department.
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 prepared 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 Maryland
twenty-five percent (25%) of the shells from the oysters shucked in
his establishment for the current season, said shells to be removed
on or before the twentieth day of August following]. Said license
shall have effect from the first day of September in the year in
which it may have been obtained until the thirty-first day of August,
inclusive, next succeeding.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 14, 1967.

CHAPTER 167
(Senate Bill 92)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 42E
(c) of Article 40 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Re-
placement Volume and 1966 Cumulative Supplement), title "Gen-
eral Assembly," subtitle "Senate," requiring every person eligible
for election as a Senator to reside in the State Senatorial district
and/or subdistrict AND SUBDISTRICT, IF ANY, which he may
be chosen to represent.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 42E(c) of Article 40 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1965 Replacement Volume and 1966 Cumulative Supple-
ment), title "General Assembly", subtitle "Senate", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

42E.

(c) No person shall be eligible as a Senator who at the time
of his election is not a citizen of the State of Maryland, and who has
not resided therein for at least three years next preceding his elec-
tion, and the last year thereof, in the State senatorial district and/or
subdistrict AND SUBDISTRICT, IF ANY, which he may be chosen
to represent, if such senatorial district and/or subdistrict AND SUB-
DISTRICT, IF ANY, shall have been so long established; and if not,
then in a portion of a county or of Baltimore City which is a part