LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 150.
AN ACT to repeal Sections 107 A, 107 B and 107 C, of Article
3, Chapter 277, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Baltimore County," sub-title "Fish," passed at
the January session, 1894, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 107 A, 107 B, 107 C, of Article 3, chapter
277, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Baltimore County," sub-title "Fish," passed at the January
session, 1894, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enaeted with amendments, so as to read as follows :

Repeal.

107 &.. It shall not be lawful for any person to haul a seine
or to fish with gill nets, tikes, traps, or set nets of any kind or
description in any of the rivers, creeks, coves, branches or
waters within the limits of or adjacent or contiguous to Balti-
more county, without first obtaining the permission in writing
thereto from the owners or occupiers of the banks or shores in
Baltimore county of such rivers, creeks coves, branches or
waters aforesaid, in front or opposite to which any such seine,
gill net, fike, trap or set net of any kind or description is or
may be placed.

Unlawful to
fish with gill
nets, etc.,
without
permission.

107 B. It shall not be lawful for any person to fish with gill
nets, fikes, traps, or set nets of any kind or description within
one mile on either side of a line drawn from the northeastern-
most extremity or point of Miller's Island to the southeastern-
most extremity or point of Spriy's Island; nor shall it be law-
ful for any person to set gill nets, tikes, traps or set nets of
any kind or description in the rivers, creeks, coves, branches or
waters of Baltimore county, farther than one-third the width
of said waters, beginning at low water mark on either side of
aforesaid waters, within the limits of Baltimore county.

Where unlaw-
ful to fish
with gill
nets, etc.

107 C. Any person violating the provisions of either of the
preceeding sections shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
punished by imprisonment for not more than six months
nor leas than three months, and by a fine of not more than two
hundred nor less than fifty dollars, for each and every viola-
tion, in the discretion of the court, of which fine, one-half
shall go to the informer.

Penalty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 4, 1896.

Effective.