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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Granting of

8. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may grant

specific fran-

for a limited time and subject to the conditions and limitations

limited time.

contained in this Article, specific franchises or rights in or re-

lating to any of the public property or places mentioned in the

preceding section; provided, that such grant is in compliance

with the requirements of this Article and that the terms and

conditions of the grant shall have first been authorized and set

forth in an ordinance duly passed by the city. Every such

grant shall specifically set forth and define the nature, extent

and duration of the franchise or right thereby granted, and no

franchise or right shall pass by implication under any such

grant; and notwithstanding any such grant, the Mayor and

City Council of Baltimore shall at all times have and retain the

power and right to reasonably regulate in the public interest the

exercise of the franchise or right so granted; and the said

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not have power by

grant or ordinance to divest itself of the right or power to so

Restricting

regulate the exercise of such franchise or right. But no fran-

franchises
for certain

chise shall be granted for the erection on any of the streets,

things.

lanes or alleys of the said city of any awning poles, posts,

hitching-posts, barber poles, railings, open areas, stepping

stones, sign-posts, horse troughs, clocks, stands of any char-

acter or cellar doors or coal holes, unless the same be flush

with the pavement.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 617.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 3

of Chapter 543 of the Acts of 1902, entitled "An Act to

regulate the taking of fish in the waters of Allegany County."

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Section 3 of Chapter 543 of the Acts of the General

Assembly of Maryland of 1902 be and the same is hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Regulating the

3. It shall be unlawful to place in the waters of said county

taking of fish
in Allegany

any trot or out line baited with either live or dead bait, or

waters.

take fish in any of the waters in said county with haul seine,

drag net or other devices other than by angling with rod, line

and single hook baited with natural or artificial bait, under the

penalty of five dollars for each trot line, drag net or other de-

vice so placed, and two dollars for each fish taken in violation