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The Maryland Code, Public Local Laws, 1888
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1952 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

payment of said fine and costs, to be committed to the jail of
said county for a period of not less than ten nor more than thirty
days.

1888, ch. 543.

139. No person shall catch or kill, or attempt to catch or kill,
any fish in the waters of said county at any time with any poison
or drug, or by the discharge of any fire-arms of any description.
Any person violating any provisions of this section shall, upon
conviction before any justice of the peace of said county, forfeit
and pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars for each offence; and upon the failure to pay
said fine, together with the costs of the prosecution, shall be
imprisoned in the jail of said county for a period of not less than,
thirty nor more than sixty days.

Ibid.

140. No person shall at any time wilfully molest or disturb,
take or catch, destroy or kill any of the fish mentioned in sections
136 and 137, while they are upon their natural spawning beds.
Nor shall any person catch or take, kill or destroy any of the fish
mentioned in said sections by shutting off, or drawing off any
portion of the waters in said county. Any person violating any
provision of this section shall, upon conviction before any justice
of the peace of said county, forfeit and pay a fine of twenty dol-
lars for each offence; and upon failure to pay said fine, together
with the costs of the prosecution, shall be committed to the jail
of said county for the period of twenty days. This section shall
not apply to the waters of the Chesapeake and Ohio or Mill
canals.

Ibid.

141. No person, association, company or corporation, shall
throw or deposit, or permit to be thrown or deposited, any dye-
stuff, acid, coal-tar, refuse from gas-houses, sawdust, lime or dele-
terious substances, or cause the same to run or flow into or upon
any of the ponds or streams within said county; any person who
shall violate any provision of this section, or any member of any
such company, association or corporation who shall permit, or
authorize, or direct any such violation, shall, upon conviction
before any justice of the peace of said county, forfeit and pay a

 

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