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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 502.

AN ACT to repeal sections one and two of the acts

of January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-

two, chapter one hundred and ninety-eight, en-

titled "An act for the protection of and to regulate

the time and manner of catching and taking fish

and terrapins in that portion of the Potomac River

between Maryland Point, in Charles county, and

Chisildine's Island, in St. Mary's county," and to

re-enact the same with amendments, and to add

additional sections thereto.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That sections one and two of the acts

of January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-

Repealed and
re-enacted.

two, chapter one hundred and ninety-eight, entitled
"An act for the protection of, and to regulate the
time and manner of catching and taking fish and ter-

rapins in that portion of the Potomac River between

Maryland Point in Charles county, and Chisildine's

Island in St. Mary's county," be and the same are

hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as follows :

SEC. 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person

or persons, except bona fide citizens of Charles

county, to take or catch fish or terrapins, or to haul

Unlawful to

a seine, or fish a gill net, or take or catch fish or ter-

catch fish,&c.

rapins in any manner in the Potomac River or its

tributaries, or in the Wicomico River or its tributa-

ries, lying in Charles county, between Maryland

Point in Charles county and Chisildine's Island in

St. Mary's county.

SEC. 2. That no person or persons shall haul a

seine more than one hundred and sixty fathoms in

Length of

length in the Potomac River or its tributaries, nor

seine.

in the Wicomico River or its tributaries, between

Maryland Point in Charles county and Chisildine's

Island in St. Mary's county, except from the fif-

teenth day of March to the first day of June, in-

clusive.