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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Repealed and

hundred and thirty-four of an act passed January

re-enacted.

session, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled

"An act regulating and making lawful the setting of
pound nets in the waters of the Elk, Sassafras and

Bohemia rivers, and their tributaries, in Cecil coun-

ty," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-en-

acted so as to read as follows :

1. On and after the passage of this act it shall

When lawful.

be lawful for any owner, or owners, of land bor-

dering upon the waters of the Elk, Sassafras and

Bohemia rivers, and their tributaries, lying and

being within the limits of Cecil county, or to whom-
soever they may extend the privilege, to take or

catch fish from nets or traps known as pound nets,

except from the first day of June to the fifteenth

day of September of each year ; provided that

such pound nets shall not extend to or across any

channel, nor shall they be so placed as to, in any-

wise, obstruct the passage of any vessel or boat

engaged in trading in said waters ; nor shall any

seine or net be used in that portion of said pound

nets that confines the fish, the meshes of which

Size of mesh-

are less than one and a quarter inches square ; nor

es

shall any stake or post be used in placing said

pound nets of a greater diameter than four inches

in the largest part ; nor shall such stake or post be

permitted to remain in said waters for a longer

period than that prescribed in this act for the

placing of said pound nets.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from its passage.

Approved April 10, 1880.