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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1874
Volume 211, Page 3554   View pdf image (33K)
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JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 695

Talbot and Caroline counties, and with immense

 

and improper seines have been engaged in catching

 

and taking fish, and

 

WHEREAS, The quantity of fish in said waters is

 

fast diminishing, it is wise and prudent that some

Preamble.

effectual means should be adopted if possible to pre-

 

serve the breed thereof, and

 

WHEREAS, Non-residents of this State have been

Preamble.

in the habit of fishing in said waters and destroying

 

great numbers of young and small fish, and besides

 

have on various occasions, landed on the shores of

 

said waters and committed sundry depredations upon

 

the lands of the owners thereof, and have made their

 

escape before legal process could reach them ; there-

 

fore —

 

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of

 

Maryland, That sections one hundred and thirteen and

Repealed and

one hundred and fourteen, of article ten, of the Code

substituted in
lieu

of Public Local Laws, entitled " Dorchester county,"

 

and sections eighty-six and eighty-seven, of article

 

twenty, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Talbot

 

county, and also sections ninety and ninety-one, of

 

article six, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Car-

 

oline county, be and the" same are hereby repealed,

 

and the following substituted for said sections of

 

each of the aforesaid counties under sub-title " fish."

 

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-

 

ful for any person, with the exception of bona fide

Not be lawful.

resident voters of Dorchester, Talbot and Caroline

 

counties, and they shall first obtain permission of

 

the occupants or owners of lands bordering on said

 

waters, of said counties heretofore named, to take or

 

catch fish in the waters of said counties, with seines,

 

with meshes of less size than five inches square.

 

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-

Not be lawful.

ful for any person to empty their seines in water less

 

than twelve inches deep; and all persons violating

 

the two preceding sections of this act, in either of

 

the aforesaid counties, shall, upon conviction thereof

 

before a justice of the peace, in the county where the

 

offence shall be committed, be fined not less than

 

five nor more than fifty dollars, or shall be subject

Penalty.



 

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