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CHAPTER 594.
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AN ACT to repeal section two, of the acts of the general assem-
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bly of Maryland of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, chapter
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one hundred and fifty-one, as now embodied in the Code of
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Public Local Laws, being section one hundred and eighteen,
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title "Kent County," sub-title "Fish and Terrapins," and
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being section one hundred and sixty-eight, of the Code of
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Public Local Laws, title "Queen Anne's County," sub-title
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"Pish and Terrapins," and to re-enact the same with amend-
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ments.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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That section two, of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-
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Repeal.
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eight, chapter one hundred and fifty-one, as embodied in the
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Code of Public Local Laws, title "Kent County," sub-title "Fish
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and Terrapins," and in the Code of Public Local Laws, title
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"Queen Anne's County," sub-title "Fish and Terrapins'" be and
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the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as
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follows :
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SEC. 2. A nd be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person
to take, capture or destroy fish in the waters of the Chester river or
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its tributaries in the counties of Kent or Queen Anne's counties,
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by seines, drag-nets, set-nets, fish buckets, fish-pots, weirs, pound-
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Unlawful
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nets, fykes or any other means or contrivance whatever, which is
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now known or used in the capturing or destroying fish, or which
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may hereafter be invented for that purpose, from the thirtieth
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day of June to the first day of August, except with hook and
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line; provided, however, that seines or nets may be used for the
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taking of taylors and mackerel fish; provided, the meshes of
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such nets or seines are in the bar not less than one and seven-
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eighth inches, or in the mesh not less than three and three-
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quarter inches.
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Effective.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
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the date of its passage.
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Approved April 8, 1890.
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