486

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 334.

AN ACT to repeal sections one hundred and two

and one hundred and three, of article twenty-one,

of Public Local Laws, title " Washington County,"

sub-title " Fish," and to re-enact the same with

amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repealed and
re-enacted

Maryland, That sections one hundred and two and

one hundred and three, of the Public Local Laws, title

"Washington County," sub-title "Fish," be and the

same are hereby repealed, and re-enacted so as to

read as follows :

SEC. 102. It shall not be lawful for any person to

Not lawful.

whip or beat the water in the Antietam Creek or its

tributary streams, Bear Creek, Long Meadow Branch

and Little Antietam, with poles, sticks or other

things, for the purpose 'of driving the fish into nets,

seines, fish-baskets or other snares, or to erect any

fish-pot, or to fish with any net, basket, gig, trot-

lines, or in any other manner except with the angling

rod and dip-nets.

SEC. 103. Any person offending against the pro-

visions of the last preceding section, shall forfeit and

Offending
against

pay for each offence, and for every month a fish-pot

is suffered to remain, the sum of twenty dollars; to

be recovered in the name of the County Commis-

sioners of said county, before a justice of the peace;

one-half to the informer, and the other half to the

school fund of said county.

Approved April 11th, 1874.