EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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contrivance to remove the same within five days after convic-

tion of having constructed either a fish pot or fish weir or

other like contrivance ; and for each and every day thereafter

that same shall be maintained, said owner or user of any

fish pot or fish weir or other like contrivance shall be subjected

to a further fine of five dollars for each and every day he

shall maintain or operate the same, and for the purpose of this

Act all such fish pots, fish weirs or other like contrivances

for the taking of fish are hereby declared public nuisances

and as such are to be abated, removed or destroyed in like

manner as are other nuisances, and it shall be the duty of the

game warden or his deputies to summarily remove, abate and

destroy the said nuisances and in so doing he or they are

hereby authorized to call upon the sheriff of Allegany County

or any other peace officer to furnish such assistance as may

be necessary, and it shall be the duty of said officers to

forthwith comply with said request. In the event that service

may not be had upon the owner or user of any fish pot,

fish weir or other like contrivance because of non-residence

or other cause, so that the cost accruing under the proceed-

Cost accruing
becomes a

ings may become a lien upon his. her or their property, then

lien.

and in that event said cost shall be paid by Allegany County

as is the case in abatement of other nuisances.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That it shall be unlawful to place

in the waters of said county any trot or out-line, baited with

either live or dead bait, or take any fish in any of the waters of

said county with haul seine, drag net or other device other than

Legitimate

by angling with rod, line and angle hook, baited with natural

angling only
allowed.

or artificial bait, under a penalty of five dollars for each trot

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

of this section.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be unlawful for any

person or corporation to place or permit to be placed or to

—have or cause to be left in places located in any of the waters

of said county, natural or flowing through said county, any

sawdust or poison or other substance hurtful to fish life, or

Hurtful to fish

to use any dynamite or explosives in said water except for

life.

engineering or mining purposes, under penalty of not less

than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each

offense.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That wherever in this Act the

Embracing all

term waters of this county is employed, it is hereby declared

the waters in
the county.

to mean to include the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, its inlets,