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The title of the Bill indicates the purpose of this amendatory
legislation is to authorize the Department of Chesapeake Bay Affairs
to designate buying stations where oysters and clams may be sold by
the catcher and to make it unlawful for a catcher to sell or a buyer
to buy oysters and clams from a catcher at any place other than such
designated buying stations. The body of the Bill incorporates an
amendment which creates a clear exception to this general language,
whereby any person may legally buy clams any place in Maryland
from the catcher thereof for such person's own consumption or use as
bait, but not for resale, subject to certain conditions.

In my view, the latest amendment incorporated in the Bill so
clearly conflicts with the title and the title is in consequence thereof
so clearly misleading, that I am unable to approve this Bill as to form
and legal sufficiency. In this respect, this Bill fails to meet minimum
constitutional requirements.

Sincerely yours,

(s) Francis B. Burch,

Attorney General.

Senate Bill No. 372—By the President:

AN ACT to add new Section 706 (d) to Article 66C of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Natural
Resources", subtitle "Oysters and Clams", to follow immediately after
Section 706 (c) thereof, to authorize the Department of Chesapeake
Bay Affairs to designate buying stations where oysters and clams may
be sold by the catcher and making it unlawful for a catcher to sell or a
buyer to buy oysters and clams from a catcher at any place other than
such designated buying stations.

The President put the question: shall the bill pass notwithstanding
the objections of the Executive?

The President announced the veto was sustained by roll call as fol-
lows:

Affirmative—None

Negative

Senators—

Mr. President, Anderson, Bailey, Bertier, Bertorelli, Bishop, Brubaker, Byron, Clark,
Connolly, Conroy, Curran, Dean, Dorf, Emanuel, Finney, Friedler, Gore. Hall, Hart,
Hodges, Hoyer, Hughes (G.), Hughes (H.), Lapides, Lee, Malkus, Manning, Mitchell,
McCourt, McGuirk, Nock, Pine, Schweinhaut, Smelser, Snyder, Staszak, Staten, Steffey,
Steinberg, Stone, Welcome, Wineland.                                                           Total—43

May 4, 1967.

Honorable William S. James
President of the Senate
State House
Annapolis, Maryland

Dear Mr. President;

In accordance with Section 17 of Article II of the Maryland
Constitution, I have vetoed today Senate Bill 400 and am returning
it to you.