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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the Circuit Court for Washington county, and Jesse

K. Hines, late Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent

county, be and they are hereby allowed and granted

Allowed time

-the period of one year from the date of the passage of

to finish up
records

this act, to bring up and complete all records and

other unfinished work, remaining unfinished and in-

complete in said offices, at the expiration of their

terms of office as such clerks, including the index

authorized to be done by the act of Assembly, passed

at January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,

chapter nineteen.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all such records and

other unfinished work as aforesaid, when completed

Same force

as aforesaid, shall have the same force and effect

and effect.

when so completed as if done and completed within

said official term in every respect.

In force.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 383.

AN ACT to prevent non-residents from catching or

taking fish in the waters of Monie Bay, Monie

Creek and its tributaries, in Somerset county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That from and after the passage of this

Unlawful

act it shall be unlawful for any person or persons,

except resident citizens of Somerset county, to fix,

set, or stake out any sort of gill-net, either stationary

or floating, or any device whatsoever for the catching

or taking of herring, shad, or other kind of fish, in

the waters of Monie Bay, Monie Creek or its tribu-

taries, in Somerset county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or per-

sons violating the provisions of the preceding section

shall be arrested, and the boats, seines and material