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	bly of Maryland, That chapter four hundred and	Repealed and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	specified," be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: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,