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Session Laws, 1880
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WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 39

CHAPTER 27.


AN ACT to repeal chapter four hundred and forty-


nine of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-


eight, entitled "An act to protect Fish and Water


Fowl in the waters of the Elk river in Cecil


county, northward of a line therein specified,"


and to enact a substitute therefor regulating the


splashing for fish in the waters of the Elk and


Bohemia rivers in said county.


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-


bly of Maryland, That chapter four hundred and

Repealed and

forty-nine of the acts of January session, eighteen
hundred and seventy-eight, entitled "An act to pro-

enacted in
lieu thereof

tect Fish and Water Fowl in the waters of the Elk


river in Cecil county, northward of a line therein


specified," be and the same is hereby repealed and
the following enacted in lieu thereof:


1. It shall not be lawful for any person to lash or

Not lawful to

beat the waters of the Elk and Bohemia rivers with

lash or beat

rods, poles or sticks, or any other instrument, or to

the waters.

make noises on the decks of any boat or any part


of said boat for the purpose of driving fish into any


net or seine within a half mile of Plum, Locust,


Henderson's, Rich Neck, Welsh, Lorts or Oldfield's


points or Heron island on the Elk river, or Town,


Rich, Parlor, Long, Hackett's or George's point on


the Bohemia river, when said points and island are


occupied by persons engaged in gunning for wild


fowl with decoys in the water, nor within a half


mile of the bridge over the Bohemia river when oc-


cupied by persons gunning for wild fowl from said

Consent to be

bridge, unless the consent of such persons is first ob-

obtained.

tained to such fishing as aforesaid. Nor shall it be


lawful to fish as aforesaid on the waters of the Elk


and Bohemia rivers from the first day of April to


the first day of September of each year.


2. Any person violating any of the provisions of

Fines— how

this act shall, upon arrest and conviction thereof be-

reco vel ed.

fore a justice of the peace in and for Cecil county,




 

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