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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

summer fish ; nor shall any person, except resi-
dent citizens of this State, or the owners or ten-
ants of lands or shores bordering on any of said
waters so lying within said counties, fish by gill
net, hauling seine, or any device whatever, within
the aforesaid waters, at any period of the year,

Permission
of owners ne-
cessary.

unless by permission of the owners or tenants of
the lands or shores aforesaid ; and any person vio-
lating and offending against either provision of
this Section shall forfeit the boats, nets and seine,
or other fixtures used by such offender at the time
of so violating the same.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1868.

CHAPTER 422.

AN ACT to provide for a public ferry at Reho-
both, in Somerset County.

Commission-
ers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Thomas Merril and Thomas
Boston, of Worcester County, James F. Adams
and Thomas W. Sterling, of Somerset County, be
and they are hereby constituted Commissioners to
examine and locate a suitable place to construct a
public ferry across the Pocomoke river, at Reho-
both on said river, and also to lay out, open and
construct a public road leading from Rehoboth to
intersect with the public road running from New-
town to Pitt's wharf in Worcester County.

Contract for
construction
of road, &c.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Com-
missioners, or a majority of them, shall have full
power and authority to contract for the construc-
tion of said road and ferry, with suitable boat,
wharves and all the necessary appurtenances, and
to assess all damages for lands ; provided, however,
that the sum total for the construction of said road