WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 333.

AN ACT to repeal chapter three hundred and

seventy-eight of the acts passed at the January

session, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, as

amended by chapter six of the acts passed at the

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-

eight, entitled "An Act to protect fish in the

Black Water River, in Dorchester County," and

to enact the following in lieu thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That chapter three hundred and

seventy-eight of the acts passed at the January ses-

sion, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, as amended

by chapter six of the acts passed at the January

Enacted in
lieu.

session, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled

"An act to protect h'sh in the Black Water river, in

Dorchester county," be and the same is hereby re-

pealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be un-

lawful for any person or persons to use patent twine

weirs, or other twine weirs, pound nets or fykes, for

the taking or catching of fish in the following waters

in Dorchester county, Fishing bay, Transquakin

river, Honga river, Fishing creek, Church creek,

(said creeks being tributaries of the Little Choptank

Where un-

river), Black Water river and Little Black Water

lawful.

river, or to fasten or stick stakes, poles or other ob-

structions in that part of the Black Water river lying

between a line drawn from Grog point to the oppo-

site side of the river, and a line drawn from Booges

ditch to the opposite side of the river, except in the

bends of said river where stake weirs now exist.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person or

persons who may violate any of the provisions of

-this act shall, upon conviction thereof, before any

justice of the peace of said county, be fined for each

and every offence the sum of fifty dollars and costs

Fine for vio-
lation.

of prosecution, and be committed to the county jail

until said fine and costs are paid, and the condemna-

tion and forfeiture of the patent twine weirs, weirs,

pound nets or fykes, and boats or canoes used in

the violations set forth in the aforegoing sections,