JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 91

CHAPTER 79.
AN ACT for the protection of Black Bass and all
other fish in the Patapsco River, above tide water.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this	Not lawful
act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons,
to take, capture, or destroy fish, by seine or seines,
dragnet or dragnets, setnet or setnets, dipnet or dip-
nets, stirnet or stirnets, fish baskets, or fish pots,
eels, weirs, brush, or fascine nets, or any means or
contrivances whatever of the nature of a seine,
which are known to destroy or capture fish, or to
destroy or capture them by shooting or striking
through the ice, or otherwise than by hook and line,
commonly known as angling, in the Patapsco River
above tide water.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, "That the owner or owners
of all dams, erected now or hereafter, on said river,
shall and are hereby required to make or cause to be	Fish ladders
made, and keep in repair, proper fish ladders, and
have them placed on said dam, so as to afford to the
fish, in said river, free course up and down said river.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if the owner or
owners of the aforesaid dams fail to comply with the
S revisions of the proceeding section, within sixty
ays from the passage and approval of this act, they	Penalty for failure
or either of them shall be liable, upon conviction
thereof, by summary process before any justice of
the peace of this State, in the county nearest or ad-
jacent to where the dam or dams are situated, to a
penalty of not less than fifty nor more than one
hundred dollars, five dollars to the informer and the
balance to the board of county commissioners of the
counties adjacent to said dam or dams, for school
purposes.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That any person or per-
sons offending against the provisions of the first sec- tion thereof shall be liable, upon conviction thereof,
by summary process before any justice of the peace of this State, in and for the county where the act is	Penalty for violating first
committed, to a penalty of not less than ten nor more	section