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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 303.

AN ACT to repeal chapter three hundred and thir-

teen of the acts of the General Assembly of Mary-

land, passed at the session of eighteen hundred and

seventy-four, entitled "An act to repeal and re-enact

with amendments the twenty third section of the

forty-first article of the Code of Public General

Laws, title ' Fish and Fisheries,' sub title ' Patux-

ent,' " and to re-enact the same with amendment.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That chapter three hundred and thir-

teen of the acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,

passed at the session of eighteen hundred and seventy-

Repealed and

four, and entitled "An act to repeal and re-enact with

re-enacted.

amendments the twenty-third section of the forty-first

article of the Code of Public General Laws, title ' Fish

and Fisheries,' sub-title ' Patuxent ' " be and the same

is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

SEC. 23. No person shall stake down any seine or

Staking down

net entirely across the Patuxent river for the purpose

seine prohibit-

of taking shad or herring; nor shall any person whip,

ed.

thresh or beat the waters of the Patuxent river with

poles or any other instrument, for the purpose of driv-

ing any fish within any seine or net; nor shall any

person or persons, except bona fide residents of Prince

George's, Charles, St. Mary's, Anne Arundel and Cal-

vert counties, in fishing in the said river, between the

fifth day of March and the fifteenth day of May, use

Size of meshes.

any seine or net with meshes of less size than one and

one-half of an inch square, or during the rest of the

year with any seine or net with meshes of a less size

than two inches square, and no person shall empty

any seine except in water twelve inches deep, and any

person violating this section shall be subject to the

fine and forfeiture provided in the twenty-second sec-

tion of this article.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.