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land and water front from that of the adjoining land owner, by fixing a
substantial stake or buoy immediately on his dividing line 500 yards from
the beach, and another in the same line half way between the beach and
the outer stake or buoy; and when the water front is on a creek, the center
of the creek shall be marked in a similar manner to prevent any infringe-
ment on the rights of persons owning the opposite shore.

(b) Haul seines of greater length than 160 fathoms are prohibited in
the Potomac River and its tributaries, and in the Wicomico River and its
tributaries between Maryland Point in Charles County and Cheseldine's
Island in St. Mary's County, between the 1st day of June and the 14th day
of March next succeeding, both dates inclusive, and it shall be unlawful to
set any fish trap or apparatus of like description near the mouth of any of
the tributaries of the said Potomac and Wicomico Rivers within Charles
County between the aforesaid lines mentioned above.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 33.

33. Dorchester County, (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to
use haul seine or seine of any description, or what is commonly called a
put-net, for the purpose of catching fish in the following waters, to wit:
Transquaking River and Chicacomico River and their tributaries, Little
Black Water River, White Hall Creek, Hurst's Creek, Shoal Creek and
Jenkins Creek; and in all other tributaries of the Choptank, it shall be un-
lawful to haul seine between the 21st day of May and the 31st day of July,
both dates inclusive in each year.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, put or allow his nets to
catch fish in the waters of the northwest prong of the Nanticoke River be-
tween the hours of 12 P. M. on Saturday to 12 P. M. on Sunday of each
and every week.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to use patent twine weirs, or
other twine weirs, pound nets and hauling seine of greater length than 350
feet, in Fishing Bay, Honga River, Black Water River and its tributaries
(except Little Blackwater River), Little Choptank River and its tribu-
taries (except Oyster Creek or Bay); or to fasten or stick stakes in that
part of Blackwater River lying between a line drawn from Grog Point to
the opposite side of the river and a line drawn from Berge's Ditch to the
opposite side of the river, except in the bends of the river where stake weirs
now exist.

(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to use gill nets in the waters of
Fishing Bay or Transquaking River north of a line drawn from Black-
water Point to Irish Creek, up the Transquaking River to Destroys Creek;
or to set nets in the aforesaid waters whose farther end shall extend more
than 300 yards from shore nor more than one-third the breadth of the
water at the place where the net may be fished, nor closer than 200 yards
of each other in the Transquaking or Chicacomico Rivers; nor shall it be
lawful in the waters of Fishing Bay south of a line drawn from Blackwater
Point to Irish Creek and north of a line drawn from Roasting Ear Point
to Duck Island Point to set any weir more than 400 yards from shore, or