876 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 406

CHAPTER 406.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 29
of Article 39 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Fish and Fisheries," sub-title "Patuxent," as said section
was amended by Chapter 462 of the Acts of 1914, exempt-
ing the taking of carp from the provisions of said section.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 29 of Article 39 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Fish and Fisheries," sub-title "Patuxent," as
said section was amended by Chapter 462 of the Acts of 1914,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments to read as follows:

29. It shall not be lawful for any person, persons, corpora-
tion or corporations to set, place, construct or use any pound
net, fyke net, trap net, sunken net or staked net of any kind,
or any device of any kind or description now known or here-
after to be invented for trapping or catching fish in any part
of the Patuxent River from Queen Anne Bridge on said river
down said river to a straight line drawn across the mouth of
said river from Drum Point Light House in Calvert County
to Hog Point in St. Mary's County nearer than 500 yards in
every direction from any other net or device above mentioned
or of the total length of any net or device above mentioned of
more than 175 yards in length, including the leaders or hedges
or wings thereof, below a straight line from Truman's Point
Wharf across said river to a point on the shore directly oppo-
site said wharf, or of a total length of more than fifty yards
in said river above said straight line from Truman's Point
Wharf or at a greater distance across the waters above men-
tioned from low water mark on either side, and be it further
provided that whenever the word net or the word device is
mentioned in this Section it shall be held to include the leader
or leaders, or hedge or hedges, or wing or wings of said net or
device; provided, however, that this Section shall not apply to
catching fish with hook and line, floating gill nets, purse nets
or seines; and provided further, that nothing in this Section
contained shall prevent anyone from capturing and destroying
in any manner any German carp, or leather carp, or any carp
of any description whatever, of any size.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918.