228                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      CH. 179]

CHAPTER 179
(House Bill 37)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 322 of
Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement
Volume), title "Natural Resources," subtitle "Fish and Fisheries,"
subheading "Part 3. Crabs, Lobster and Terrapins," and to add a
new Section 323 to said Article, title, subtitle and subheading of
said Code, to follow immediately after Section 322 thereof, specify-
ing the manner of issuance of crabbers' licenses and the disposition
of the fees collected from such licenses.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 322 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume), title "Natural Resources," subtitle
"Fish and Fisheries," subheading "Part 3. Crabs, Lobster and
Terrapins," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, and that a new Section 323 be and it is hereby added to said
Article, title, subtitle and subheading of said Code, to follow immedi-
ately after Section 322 thereof, and all to read as follows:

322.

Any resident of Maryland [between the ages of twelve (12) and
sixty-five (65)] desiring to take or catch crabs from the waters
thereof for market, and each person working on any boat used in
taking or catching of crabs for market, shall first obtain a numbered
license [from] through the clerk of the circuit court for the county
in which he resides or from the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas,
if he resides in Baltimore City, and shall pay the sum of $2, and in
addition thereto twenty-five cents to the clerk of the court for issuing
same, which license shall be good for the year of issuance only and
shall entitle the person obtaining same to take or catch crabs by any
of the methods now or hereafter authorized to be used, including
scrape, nets, dip nets or trot line. Provided, that such license shall not
authorize the taking or catching of crabs in any creek, cove, river,
inlet, bay or sound within the limits of any county other than that
wherein the license shall have been granted; provided that nothing
in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the citizens of
counties divided by a river from using such dividing river in common.
All persons taking or catching crabs under the provisions of this
subheading shall exhibit their license for so doing when required by
any officer of the [oyster police] Maryland Marine Police force, or
other officers of the State. Nonresidents of Maryland shall not be
permitted to catch crabs from the waters thereof for market. Resi-
dents of Baltimore City may be licensed to catch crabs in Anne
Arundel or Baltimore counties. And providing further that in all the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay lying near the mouth of the Patuxent
River, viz.; that is to say, those waters above a line drawn at Cedar
Point in St. Mary's County to Cove Point in Calvert County, and be-
low a line drawn from Drum Point in Calvert County to Hog Point in
St. Mary's County, crabbing with a trot line is prohibited by any ex-
cept bona fide residents of the counties bordering on the Patuxent
River. No person sixty-four years of age or older OR LESS THAN
FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE shall be required to pay the license
fee specified in this section.