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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or other securities; to make such special regulations in refer-

ence to special or other deposits as the board of directors may

think advisable; to purchase and hold such real and personal

estate and property as may be necessary for the accommodation

and transaction of its business; to issue letters of credit and

other commercial obligations, and generally to do and transact

a general banking business.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall

Subject to
general bank-

be subject to the provisions of Chapter 109 of the Acts of Gen-

ing laws.

eral Assembly of 1892, as amended by Chapter 160 of the Acts

of General Assembly of 1896, and to all general laws applicable

to companies or associations of a character similar to that

named in this Act.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 269.

AN ACT to rpeal Sections 40 and 41 of Article 39 of the Code

of Public General Laws, entitled "Fish and Fisheries," as

repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 427 of the Acts of 1896,

so far as the same applied to Montgomery County, and to

enact two new sections to Article 16 of the Code of Public

Local Laws, title "Montgomery County," sub-title "Fish,"

to follow Section 77, and to be designated as Sections 77A

and 776.

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

"Fish and
Fisheries."

land, That Sections 40 and 41 of Article 39 of. the Code of Pub-

lic General Laws, entitled "Fish and Fisheries," as repealed and

re-enacted by Chapter 427 of the Acts of 1896, be and the same

are hereby repealed, so far as the same apply to Montgomery

County, and that two new sections be and the same are hereby

added to Article 16 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title

"Montgomery County," under sub-title "Fish," to follow Sec-

tion 77, and to be designated as Sections 77A and 776, and to

read as follows :

77 A. It shall not be lawful for any person to catch or kill

Prescribing

any black bass, green bass, rock bass, pike or pickerel or wall-

method of
catching cer-

eyed pike (commonly known as salmon) in Montgomery

tain fish.

County, save only with a rod, hook and line or dip net. The

words "hook and line" shall not include trot lines or out lines.