LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1813.

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CHAPTER 22.
AN ACT authorizing the several Banks in this State to loan money to
the State of Maryland.
Superseded by 1814, eh. 50.

DECEMBER, 1813.— CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT explanatory of and supplemental to an Act* respecting the bring*
ing of Slaves from the District of Columbia into this State.
See notes to 1796, ch. 67, ante page 334.

CHAPTER 84.

*1802, ch.
68.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to prevent excessive gaming,
See notes to the original act, ante page, 355.

*1797, ch.
110.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from this time no sum or sums of money, or any other thing
whatever, won or lost, or pretended to be won or lost, by any
species of gaming or betting whatsoever", shall be demandable or
recoverable before any court of justice, or any justice of the
peace in the state of Maryland, or by any legal process, before

Money
won or
lost not
recoverable.

any tribual whatsoever in the said state ; Provided, that this
law, or any thing herein contained, shall not be construed to
extend to any suit or action now pending in any court, or before
any justice of the peace in the state of Maryland.

CHAPTER 91.

Proviso.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act for the preservation of the
breed of Fish.
Other laws are 1819, ch. 175; 1820, ch. 196; 1821, ch. 209.

*1768,ch.4.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to erect
pots, or other devices, in the river Susquehanna, for taking of
fish, whereby the slats in the bottom thereof shall be more than
one and an half inch wide, or any two of them shall be put or
placed closer together than three quarters of an inch, with the
square edges taken off, so as to round the top of the same, lo
prevent the destruction of small shad, nor shall any fishing dam
be erected that will impede the navigation of said river.

Not lawful
to erect
pots or
other de-
vices for
taking of
fish in Sus-
quehanna.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That if any person or persons
whatsoever, from and after the first day of May next, shall erect
any fishing dam so as to impede the navigation of the said river,
or erect fishing pots, or other devices whatsoever, for taking of
fish within the river aforesaid, wherein the bottom slats shall
be more than one and an half inches wide, or placed closer
together than three-quarters of an inch, or not rounded on the
top part, or shall be aiding, assisting or abetting, in building,
setting up, repairing or maintaining, such fish darn, or such fish-
ing pots, or any other devices whatsoever, for taking of fish in

Penalty for
so doing.