ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                   955*

(c)  It shall be unlawful for any person to use patent twine
weirs, or other twine weirs, pound nets and hauling seine of
greater length than 350 feet, in Fishing Bay, Honga River,.
Black Water River and its tributaries (except Little Black-
water River), Little Choptank River and its tributaries (except
Oyster Creek or Bay); or to fasten or stick stakes in that part
of Blackwater River lying between a line drawn from Grog
Point to the opposite side of the river and a line drawn from
Berge's Ditch to the opposite side of the river, except in the
bends of the river where stake weirs now exist.

(d)  It shall be unlawful for any person to use gill nets in
the waters of Fishing Bay or Transquaking River north of a
line drawn from Blackwater Point to Irish Creek, up the
Transquaking River to Destroys Creek; or to set nets in the
aforesaid waters whose farther end shall extend more than
300 yards from shore nor more than one-third of the breadth
of the water at the place where the net may be fished, nor
closer than 200 yards of each other in the Transquaking or
Chicacomico River; or to set nets in the waters of the Trans-
quaking and Chicacomico Rivers above Destroys Creek whose
farther end shall extend not more than one-half the breadth of
the water at the place where the net may be fished nor closer
than 200 yards of each other; provided that no net shall be
placed in or across the channels of the rivers, nor shall it, be
lawful in the waters of Fishing Bay south of a line drawn from
Blackwater Point to Irish Creek and north of a line drawn
from Roasting Ear Point to Duck Island Point to set any weir
more than 400 yards from shore, or to set any kind of gill nets
or weirs closer to each other than 400 yards; or to set any row
of gill nets more than 400 yards in length; nor shall it be
lawful in the waters of Fishing Bay south of the said line
from Roasting Ear Point to Duck Island Point to set any
weir beyond a depth of 18 feet in said waters.

(e)  It shall not be lawful for any person to place any pound
net, weir, or hedge in the northwest branch of the Nanticoke
River, from Walnut Landing to the place known as Chimney
Landing, on the west branch of said stream, at a distance less
than one-third of a mile apart.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1931.

Approved April 17, 1931.