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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 151.

AN ACT to repeal, amend and re-enact chapter
one hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January session, eighteen hundred and eighty-
six, entitled' "An act to better regulate the
time and manner of taking and catching fish
in the waters of Eastern bay and Chester river,
and their tributaries, within the jurisdictional
limits of Queen Anne's and Kent counties," so
as to read as follows.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Repealed,
amended and
re-enacted.

sembly of Maryland, That chapter one hundred
and thirty-eight of the acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland, passed at the January ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled
" An act to better regulate the time and manner
of taking and catching fish in the waters of
Eastern bay and Chester river, and their tribu-
taries, within the jurisdictional limits of Queen
Anne's and Kent counties," be and the same is
hereby repealed, amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows :
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be

What is un-
lawful.

lawful for any person or persons to take, capture
or destroy fish in the waters of Chester river, or
its tributaries, in the counties of Kent or Queen
Anne's, and Eastern bay and its tributaries, with-
in the jurisdictional limits of Queen Anne's
county, by seines, drag-nets, set-nets, fish-bas-
kets, fish-pots, weirs, pound-nets, fykes, or any
other means or contrivance whatsoever, which
is now known or used in the capturing or de-
stroying fish, or which may hereafter be in-
vented for that purpose, from the twentieth day

What is law-
ful.

of May to the first day of August, except with
hook and line ; provided, however, that seines
or nets may be used for the taking of taylors and
mackerel fish provided the meshes of such nets
or seines are, in the bar, not less than one and
seven-eighth inches, or, in the mesh, not less
than three and three-quarter inches ; and pro-
vided, however, that eels may be taken or cap-