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4. Requesting the General Assembly of the State of Vir- 
ginia to co-operate with Maryland in the passage of concur- 
rent legislation for the protection of the crab, in order that 
this crustacean may be protected throughout the entire Chesa- 
peake basin and further requesting that the State of Virginia 
pass laws regulating winter dredging for crabs in the vicinity 
of the Capes, in order that the gravid females, seeking those 
waters, may be protected. 
