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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

not extend across any channel, nor shall they be so placed as to in

anywise obstruct the passage of any vessel or boat engaged in trad-
ing 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 are

less than one and a quarter inches square, nor shall any stake or

post be used in placing said pound nets of a greater diameter than

five inches in the largest part, nor shall such stake or post be per-

mitted to remain in said waters for a longer period than that pre-

scribed in this section for the placing of pound nets.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the preceding section shall not

be construed to permit any person to place such pound nets op-

posite the shore of any owner of land bordering on said waters

Consent.

unless the consent of such owner is first obtained; nor shall any

such pound net be so placed as to obstruct the hauling of any seine

upon any established fishing shore on said waters, unless so placed

by the owners of such fishing shore.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person violating the pro-

visions of the two preceding sections shall forfeit the seme or nets-

and the boat and materials used in fishing the seine, and shall in

Fines.

addition pay a fine of twenty dollars; provided, however, that the

using of any post or stake of a larger size than five inches in the

largest part, or permitting the same to remain for a longer period
than ten days after the removal of the seine or nets therefrom, shall

subject the person so offending to a fine of not more than twenty

nor less than ten dollars.

Effective.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved March 14th, 1890.

CHAPTER 90.

AN ACT to refund to David Thum, late sheriff of Washington

county, the sum of seventy-one dollars and sixty-eight cents

($71.68,) erroneously paid by him as said sheriff into the State

treasury.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the comptroller of the treasury be and he is hereby author-

ized and directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the

State of Maryland in favor of David Thum, late sheriff of Wash-

To repay.

ington county, for the sum of seventy-one dollars and sixty-eight

cents ($71.68,) erroneously paid by him as said sheriff to the

treasurer of the State on the fifth day of October, eighteen hun-

dred and eighty-nine, the same having been approved by the offi-

cers of the treasury department.