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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 206

city, or any department or official thereof, and shall file and
arrange such opinions and abstracts in such manner and
order as to be at all times readily accessible, and shall make
and preserve an index thereof. He shall also procure all
law books heretofore purchased by the city and in posses-
sion of any law officer or ex-law officer of the city, and
arrange them in a proper book case.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the 'date of its passage.
Approved March 30, 1906.

CHAPTER 207.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
138 of Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Washington County," sub-title "Fish," as enacted by
Chapter 531, passed at the January Session of 1902.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal and
re-enact.

land, That Section 138 of Article 22 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Washington County," sub-title "Fish,"
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows :

Section 138. No person shall catch, or attempt to catch,
kill, or attempt to kill, in the waters of said county, any of
the fish named in the two preceding sections, with or by

Unlawful to
catch or kill
fish with any
seine, etc.

means of any seine, weir fykes, pound or trap-net, drag-net,
' stir-net, sledging, gigging, or any snare or device whatsoever,
except by angling with hand-line, trot or out-line, or angling
rod held in hand, or by dip-net, hand-net or fish-pot. All
nets, seines and other devices forbidden by this section to be
used are hereby declared to be nuisances and contraband,
and any person finding the same in the waters of said
county, or adjacent thereto, is authorized to destroy such
contraband articles, and no action for damages shall lie
against him for such destruction. Any person violating any
provisions of this section shall, upon conviction before any
justice of the peace of the said county thereof, pay a fine of
not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars
and the costs of prosecution; and in default of payment of
said fine and costs, to be committed to the jail of said
county for a period of not less than ten nor more than thirty
days.