Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-06-09
ANNAPOLIS. Md. FRIDAY. JUNE 9. 1916.

ficers of the State. Boys ten years O
age and under shall not be required e
obtain a license. Non-residents o.
Maryland shall not be permitted tC
catch crabs from the waters thereof
Tor market. Residents of Baltimore
| city may be licensed to catch crabs in
Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties
Section 9eB. Any person desiring
TO engage in the business of picking
canning or packing crabs in any way
or buying or marketing crabs, shall
first obtain license from the Clerk OF
the Circuit Court for the county in
which he resides or does business. or
from the Clerk OF the Court of Com
mon Pleas, if he resides or does busi-
ness in Baltimore City. such license
to be good for the year of issue only
and shall pay the following fees, %,
For each person, firm or corporation
In the busines sof picking, canning,
packing or shipping cooked hard or
soft crabs or crab meat (except per-
SONS picking and selling crab meat for
local family trade), license fee of
$1,000; t2)' For each person. firm or
corporationRngaged in the business of
selling marketing or shipping live
hard or soft crabs by barrel or crate.
license fee of $500; provided that
any person who is duly licensed to
ship or pack crabs shal not be re-
quired to procure further license.
Section 93C. II shall be unlawful
for any person of persons to catch,
offer for sale or hold in his or their
possession at any time, any female
crabs bearing eggs visible thereon
tsponge crabs or any female crab
from which the egg punch or bunion
has been removed.
Section 93D. Any person, firm or
corporation violating the provisions of
the sections of this subtitle Crabs
shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction before any Justice of
the Peace in the county or city in
which he resides, shall be fined not
less than SO nor more than 500, in
the discretion of the Court. Upon fail
ure to pay the fine the convicted party
three months. or until the. said fine
is paid.
Section "a. One-tenth of all crab
license fees provided by this subtitle
shall be retained by the respective
Clerks Of the Courts issuing same and
the remaining nine-tenths. together
with all fines imposed under Section
93D for violation of any of the pro-
visions of this law, shall be paid into
the Conservation Fund and shall be
disbursed by the Conservation Com
mission so far as is necessary in pay
ing the expenses incurred by them in
the protection or propagation of The
crab supply of this State, the balance,
If any. to be used in the discretion of
the Commmission for any of the OBJ
jects under it's control.
Section 3. And be it further en-
acted, That the Section now known as
Section "a of Article 80 of the Annota-
ted Code of Maryland CBagbby's Edi-
tion) be and the same is hereby re-
pealed.
Section 4. And be it further enact
ed That this Acts hall take effect on
June 1st. 1916, and that all acts or
parts of acts inconsistent with tho
provisions of this Act be and the same
are hereby repealed"
The following crab law, Chapter No.
49, passed by the Legislature of 1916,
and approved by the Governor Arril
IL, 1916, pertains to Somerset county;
AN ACT to regulate the taking or
catching of crabs in the waters of
Somerset county, and requiring license
therefor
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That it
shall be unlawful for any person or
persons to dredge for crabs in any of
the natural bars or rocks set aside for
the taking of oysters in the waters OF
Somerset County, or to take. catch or
have in his or their possession any
hard crabs, other than one in the peel
er state measuring less than five in
ches across the shell from tip to tip OF
take, catch or have in his or their pos
session any egg bearing female crab.
known as the spawn crab,sponge crab,
blooming female crab or mother crab,
nor any female crab from which the
egg pouch or bunion has been removed
catch or keep in floats or in his or
their possession any fat crab, or any
crab known as snot crab or green crab.