ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 531
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Chapter 466.
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AN ACT to repeal chapter four hundred and eleven
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and chapter three hundred and thirty-three of the
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acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed
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at the January session, eighteen hundred and eighty-
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two, and chapter one hundred and fourteen of the
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acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed
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at the January session, eighteen hundred and eighty,
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entitled "An act to better regulate the time and
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manner of taking and catching fish in the waters of
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Chester river and its tributaries lying within the
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counties of Kent and Queen Anne's, in this state,
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and to re-enact the following in lieu thereof:
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any person
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or persons to take, capture or destroy fish in the waters
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of Chester river or its tributaries in Kent and Queen
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Anne's counties by seines, drag-nets, set-nets, fish-bas-
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kets, fish-pots, weirs, pound-nets, fykes or any other
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When unlawful
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means or contrivance whatsoever which is now known
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to fish by seiiies
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or used in the capturing or destroying fish, or which
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may hereafter be invented for that purpose from the
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twentieth day of May to the tenth day of September,
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. except with hook and line; provided, however, that
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Proviso.
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seines or nets may be used for the taking of taylors
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and mackerel fish, provided the meshes of such nets
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or seines are in the bar not less than one and seven-
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eighth inches, or in the mesh less than three and three-
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quarters inches.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-
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ful for any person or persons who use stakes or poles
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in setting nets of whatever class or description in the
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waters mentioned in the first section of this act to
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leave such stakes or poles in the waters where they
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Remove stakes
and poles.
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were used, but shall remove or have removed such
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stakes or poles from the waters where they were used
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on or before the first day of June in each year, nor
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shall they again be put down in said waters prior to
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the first day of September following.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-
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ful for any person or persons in said waters mentioned
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