WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 473

	CHAPTER 322.
	AN ACT to repeal sections one hundred and two
	and one hundred and three of article twenty-one of
	the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Washington
	county," sub-title "Fish," and to re-enact the
	same with amendments.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That sections one hundred and
	two and one hundred and three of the Code of Pub-
	lic Local Laws, title "Washington county," sub-title " Fish," as the same were amended by chapter three	Repealed and re-enacted.
	hundred and thirty-four of the Acts of Assembly
	of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be and the
	same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to
	read as follows :
	102. It shall not be lawful for any person to whip
	or beat the water in the Antietam creek or its
	tributary streams, Beaver creek, Long Meadow
	branch, and Little Antietam, with poles, sticks or	Unlawful acts
	other things, for the purpose of driving the fish into
	nets, seines, fish baskets or other snares, or to erect
	any fish pot, or to fish with any net, basket, gig,
	trot line, or in any other manner, except with the
	angling rod and dip nets.
	103. Any person offending against the provisions of the last preceding section shall be arrested and taken
	before a justice of the peace, and on conviction, shall
	forfeit and pay for each offence, and for each month
	a fish pot may be suffered to remain in any of the
	streams aforesaid, a fine, not exceeding the sum of
	twenty dollars, and in default of payment of such
	fine shall be committed to the county jail for a
	term not exceeding sixty days, the said fine to be	Pine for vio-
	recovered in the name of the County Commissioners	lation.
	of Washington county, before a justice of the peace,
	one half to be paid to the informer and the other
	half to the school fund of said county ; provided that any person feeling himself aggrieved by the
	judgment rendered by any justice of the peace, in proceedings under the provision of this and the last