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double the value of said boat, vessel, net or other equipment, condi-
tioned on the performance of the final judgment of the Court. Upon
such recognizance being given, the party convicted and the aforesaid
property shall be discharged.

This section is a duplicate of article 72, section 68G.

1912, ch. 4.

59E. If any oyster inspector or other officer empowered with the
duties of enforcing the provisions of sections 59A-59F, knowingly fail
to report violations of the same or to perform any of the duties herein
required of him, he shall, for every such offense, be liable to a fine of
one hundred dollars, to be applied to the oyster fund of his State.
This section is a duplicate of article 72, section 68H.

1912, ch. 4.

59F. Nothing in sections 59A-59F shall be construed in any way
to impair, alter or abridge any rights which either State, or the citizens
thereof, may be entitled to, either by, through, under or against the
compact entered into between the States of Maryland and Virginia on
March 28th, 1785.

This section is the same as article 72, section 68 I.

Rivers in Talbot, Dorchester and Caroline Counties.
60.*

Trout and Other Fish.

72.**+

1904, art. 39, sec. 81. 1902, ch. 358, sec. 78E. 1906, ch. 161. 1914, ch. 366.

81. Every owner of a dam or dams upon any of the said waters of
this State is hereby required to make and keep in repair, or cause to
be made and kept in repair, and placed upon said dam or dams at
least one fish ladder of such character as to enable fish to have a free
course up and down said waters at all times under a penalty of not
less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each
and every offense; provided that one-half the cost of constructing said
fish ladders, upon dams in Harford County now in existence, shall be
borne by the County Commissioners of said County.

Ibid. sec. 86. 1902, ch. 358, sec. 2. 1906, ch. 161. 1914, ch. 366.
86. All Acts and parts of Acts, and all Sections and parts of Sec-
tions of the Code, both of General and Local Laws, and all amendments
of and additions and supplements thereto, now in force in the State

*The act of 1912, chapter 363, made it a misdemeanor to catch fish in the
waters of the Chicacomico River in Dorchester County with a haul-seine.

**The act of 1914, chapter 14, permits the catching of brook trout in the waters
of Frederick County with rod, line and hook from March 31 to July 1.

+The act of 1914, chapter 49, is an act for the protection of fish (including
trout) in certain streams of Garrett County.