WILLIAM T HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 169
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CHAPTER 114.
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AN ACT to better regulate the time and manner of
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taking and catching fish in the waters of Chester
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River and its tributaries lying within the counties
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of Kent and Queen Anne, in this State.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-
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bly of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any
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person or persons to take, capture or destroy fish in
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the waters of Chester River or its tributaries in Kent
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and Queen Anne counties, by seines, drag-nets, set-
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nets, fish-baskets, fish-pots, weirs, pound-nets, fykes
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Unlawful to
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or any other means or contrivance whatsoever,
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capture fish.
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which is now known or used in the capturing or
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destroying fish, or which may hereafter be invented
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for that purpose, from the tenth day of May to the
first day of September, except with hook and line ;
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provided, however, that seines or nets may be used
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for the taking of taylors and mackerel fish, provided
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the meshes of such nets or seines are in the bar not
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less than one and seven-eighth inches, or in the mesh
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less than three and three-quarter inches.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be
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lawful for any person or persons who use stakes or
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poles in settiug nets of whatever class or description,
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in the waters mentioned in the first section of this
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act, to leave such stakes or poles in the waters where
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Unlawful to
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they were used, but shall remove, or have removed,
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leave stakes
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such stakes or poles from the waters where they were
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in water.
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used, on or before the twentieth day of May in each
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year, nor shall they again be put down in said waters
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prior to the twentieth day of September following.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for any person
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or persons, in said waters, in the first section of this
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act, to empty their seines upon the beach or shore at
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any time whilst engaged in fishing, so as to leave
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the smaller fish to perish, but to empty the same in
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Not to empty
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water of sufficient depth to enable the smaller fish
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seines on the
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to return to the waters for growth and maturation,
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shore.
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and any person or persons using seines, pound-nets,
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fish-baskets, fykes, traps or nets of any class or de-
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scription that catch the fish alive, shall immediately
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