928 CHARLES COUNTY. [ART. 9.

down or ate the grass or herbage, or rooted up or disturbed the
soil or earth on any such waste or unenclosed land; and the de-
fendant in any such action may plead the general issue and give
the special matter in evidence.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 9, sec. 48.'

64. No person shall distrain any horse, hog or other beast
damage feasant upon any waste or unenclosed land in Charles
county.

FISH.
P. L. L., (1860,) art. 9, sec. 44.

65. No person shall erect any fish dam or other obstruction in.
or across Alien's Fresh run, above the bridge at Alien's Fresh, in
Charles county, which shall in any manner endanger the security
and safety of the bridge; and any person so doing shall forfeit
and pay for every such offence the sum of twenty dollars, to be
recovered before any justice of the peace of the county, one-half
to the informer and the other half to the State.

1878, ch. 503.

66. It shall not be lawful for any persons, except bona fide
citizens of Charles county, to haul a seine, or fish a gill net, or
take or catch fish in any manner in the Potomac river or its
tributaries, or in the Wicomico river or its tributaries, lying in
Charles county, between Maryland point, in Charles county, and
Chisildine's island, in St. Mary's county.

Ibid.

67. No person shall haul a seine more than one hundred and
sixty fathoms in length in the Potomac river or its tributaries,
nor in the Wicomico river or its tributaries, between Maryland
point, in Charles county, and Chisildine's island, in St. Mary's
county, except from the fifteenth day of March to the first day
of June, inclusive.

Ibid.

68. No person shall haul a seine, nor fish a net of any kind or
description in said waters, with a mesh of less size than three