FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 80.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and eighty-five of

article ten of the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Dor-

chester County, " sub -title ' ' Fish, " as the same was repealed

and re-enacted by the act of eighteen hundred and ninety,

chapter five hundred and sixteen, and to re-enact the same

with amendments and to add an additional section thereto,

to be designated section one hundred and eighty-five B.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section .one hundred and eighty -five of

article ten of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Dor-

chester County," sub- title "Fish," as the same was repealed

Repealed.

and re-enacted by the act of eighteen hundred and ninety,

chapter five hundred and sixteen be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as

follows :

SEC. 185. It shall be unlawful for any person to use patent

twine weirs or other twine weirs, pound nets, fykes or haul-

ing seines of greater length than three hundred and fifty

Unlawful
to use

feet, for taking or catching fish, terapins or crabs in the

weirs,
pound nets,

following waters of Dorchester County : All that part of

&c , in

Fishing Bay north of a line from roasting ear point, to the

Dorchester
County.

upper side of Duck Island Cove, or any of the tributaries of

Honga River, Little Choptank and its tributaries, provided

that the provisions of the sub-title of this article shall not

apply to that portion of the Little Choptank River, and the

tributaries thereof lying south of a line drawn from James'

Point to the north end or limit of the point of land on the

Susquehanna shore on the west side of the mouth of Wool-

ford's Creek.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the following new section

to be designated one hundred and eighty-five B, be and the

New

same is hereby added to said article ten, to-wit :

Section,

SEC. 185 B. It shall be unlawful for any person, except

a bona-fide resident of Bucktown and Drawbridge districts

Bona fide

in Dorchester County, to use any patent twine weir or other

resident.

twine weir, pound net, fyke, stick weir or hauling seine for

the purpose of taking or catching fish in Trausquakin River

or its tributaries, except in that part of said Trausquakin

River and its tributaries which runs and flows beyond and

outside of the said Bucktown and Drawbridge districts. It

shall also be unlawful for the bona-fide residents of Buck-

town and Drawbridge districts to obstruct and occupy with

their patent twine weirs or otheir twine weirs, pound nets,

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