762 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

held the office to which he was appointed in December, in the
year nineteen hundred and seven.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the first day of May, nineteen hundred and eight.

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 512.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections 185c
and 185D of article 10 of the Code of Public Laws of Mary-
land, title "Dorchester County," sub-title "Fish."

Be it enacted, That sections 185c and 185D of article 10 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester
County," sub-title "Fish," re-enacted to read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That article 10 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Dorchester County," sub-title "Fish," be and the
same is hereby amended by addition of three new sections
thereto, to be known as sections 185C, 185D and 185E, and to
read as follows:

SEC. 185c. It shall be unlawful for any person to use gill or
gilling nets in the waters of Fishing Bay or Transquakin 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 to fish weirs or other nets in the waters afore-
said 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 Transquakin River, and on the opposite side of said
Transquakin River to Transquakin Point, and it shall also be
unlawful to set fish nets or weirs north of said line from Trans-
quakin Point to Little Snake Island shells in the waters afore-
said 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 from 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 unlaw-
ful to set or fish any weirs or nets in the waters of the said
Transquakin River, beginning with the northwest 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