JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERN

OR. 423

CHAPTER 252.

AN ACT to repeal an act passed at the session of

the General Assemby of Maryland in eighteen

hundred and seventy-four, chapter four hundred

and twenty-one, entitled an act to repeal section

two of article forty-one of the Public General Laws

of Maryland, title Fish and Fisheries, and to re-

enact the same with amendments, and to substitute

the following in lieu thereof:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section two of article forty-one of

Repealed,

the Public General Laws of this State, be and the

amended and
re-enacted.

same is hereby repealed and amended, and re-enacted

as follows :

2. No person shall, from the tenth day of June

until the thirty-first day of July in each year, fish

by gill net or hauling seine within the waters of the

Not to fish.

Chesapeake Bay lying within bounds of Cecil, Kent

and Harford counties or any of its tributaries within

said counties, unless with seines usually called mar-

ket seines, which are used for catching summer fish,

nor shall any person, except resident citizens of this

Except resi-
dents.

State, or the owners or tenants 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; and any person violating and offending

Penalty for

against either provisions of this section shall forfeit

violation.

the boats, nets and seine, or other fixtures used by

such offender at the time of so violating the same;

and said person or persona so offending shall, on

proper warrant, be subject to arrest by any citizen,

constable or sheriff of said counties, and by them

carried before any justice of the peace of any of said

counties, and upon trial and conviction, the boats,

nets, seines and other fixtures used by said offender

or offenders shall be forfeited and sold, and the pro-

ceeds, after deducting the costs, shall be paid to the

county commissioners of the county in which said

offence shall be committed, for the use of the school

fund of said county, and in addition to such forfeit-