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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 806

CHAPTER 806.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
143 and 144 of Article 2 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title " Anne Arundel County," sub-title " Fish, Crabs
and Terrapins," as enacted by Chapter 579 of the Acts of
1902, and to add a new section to said article under said
sub-title, to be designated as Section 144 A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 143 and 144 of Article 2 of the Code of

Bepeal and
re-enact.

Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel County," sub-title
" Fish, Crabs and Terrapins," be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as
follows :

143. It shall not be lawful for any person or corporation

Unlawful to
use seine or
net in catch-
Ing fish.

to use in the rivers or waters of Anne Arundel county any
seine or net in catching or taking fish, the meshes of which
shall be less than one inch square.

144. If any person or corporation shall use or haul in the

Fine imposed.

rivers or waters of said county any seine or net exceeding
ten fathoms in length, the meshes of which shall be less than
one inch square, shall be fined for each offense not less than
one dollar nor more than twenty dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a new section be and the

New section
added.

same is hereby added to said article under said sub-title, to
be numbered 144 A, and to come in after Section 144, and to
read as follows :

144 A. It shall not be lawful for any person or corporation
to set, place, construct or use in the waters of South river, in

Unlawful to
use a pound
net.

said county, or in any creek, cove or inlet thereof, above
Hills point on the north side and Round point on the south
side, any pound net; and any person or corporation violating
the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction before
any justice of the peace of said county, be fined not less than
one dollar nor more than twenty dollars for each and every
offense.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1906.