WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 109

	CHAPTER 76.
	AN ACT to repeal the first section of an act passed
	at the January session, eighteen hundred and sev-
	enty-four, chapter seventy-nine, entitled " An act
	for the protection of black bass and all other fish
	in the Patapsco river, above tide-water," and to re-
	enact the same with an amendment.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That the first section of an act passed	Repealed and
	at the January session, eighteen hundred and seven-	section added
	ty-four, chapter seventy-nine, be and the same is	in lieu.
	hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu
	thereof:
	SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That from and after the passage
	of this act it shall not be lawful for any person or
	persons to take, capture or destroy fish by seine or
	seines, drag-net or drag-nets, set-net or set-nets, dip-
	net or dip-nets, stir-net or stir-nets, fish baskets or
	fish pots, eels weirs, brush or fascine nets, or any
	means or contrivances whatever of the nature of a	Unlawful to
	seine, which are known to destroy or capture fish, or to destroy or capture them by shooting or striking	capture fish by seines, &c.
	through the ice, or otherwise, than by hook and line,
	commonly known as angling, in the Patapsco river,
	above the point where the old turnpike road from
	Baltimore to Washington crosses the said river.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	Effective.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved March 30, 1880.