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and the same is hereby amended by addition of three new
sections thereto, to be known as Section 185 o, 185 D and
185 E, and to read as follows :
Section 185 e. It shall be unlawful for any person to use
gill or gilling nets in the waters of Fishing bay or Trans-
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quakin river, in Dorchester county, north of a line drawn
from Blackwater point to Irish creek, up the Transquakin
river to Destroys creek, or to set or fish weirs or other nets
in the waters aforesaid with the farther end of said weirs or
nets more than three hundred yards from shore north of
said line drawn as aforesaid from Blackwater point to Irish
creek to a line drawn from Transquakin point to Little
Snake island shells, near the mouth of Trausquakin river,
and on the opposite side of the said Transquakin river to
Transquakin point, and it shall also be unlawful to set fish
nets or weirs north of said line from Transquakin point to
Little Snake island shells in the waters aforesaid of the
Transquakin river, as far as the northwest reach of said
river, having the farther end of said nets or weirs more than
two hundred yards from shore, and in no place in the waters
of the Transquakin river up to the northwest reach thereof
shall any net or weir be set to extend more than one-third
of the breadth of the water at the place where the said net
or weir may be so set or fished; and it shall also be
unlawful to set or fish any weirs or nets in the waters
of the said Transquakin river beginning with the north-
west reach of said river as aforesaid up to the head of the
river, extending more than one-half of the breadth of the water
at the place where the said weir or net may be set or fished.
And it shall also be unlawful to set or fish weirs closer than
two hundred yards of each other in the waters of the Trans-
quakin river and Chicacomico river, and it shall also be
unlawful to haul seines in the waters of the Transquakin and
Chicacomico rivers, and it shall also be unlawful in the
waters of Fishing bay,. south of a line drawn from Black-
water point to Irish creek, to set any weir more than four
hundred yards from shore, or to set any line of gill nets or
weirs closer to each other than four hundred yards, or to set
any row of gill nets more than four hundred yards in length.
Section 1 85 D. That any person who may violate the pro-
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Unlawful to
use gill or
gill nets, etc.
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