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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any
person to throw or place into the waters of the
Pocomoke river, for the purpose of taking or de-
stroying fish therein, any lime, coculus indicus,
otherwise called Indian or Indian cockle, or any
other poisonous weed or substance, whether the
same is mixed with any ather substance or not ;
every person so offending shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof,
before any Justice of the Peace, in the name of
the State, such person shall be punished by fine in
the discretion of the Justice, of not less than five,
nor more than, twenty-five dollars, to be collected
by any Constable in the district where such offence
may have been committed, in the same manner of
other small debts ; one-half of said fine shall be
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Fish in Poco-
moke river —
provision for
their protec-
tion.
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paid to the informer, and the other half into the
public school fund of Worcester county ; provided,
that nothing herein contained shall be intended to
apply to any of the waters of said river, below a
point called and known by the name of Porter's
Bridge.
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Proviso.
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Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That any person deeming
himself or herself aggrieved by any judgment of a
Justice of the Peace under this act, shall be en-
titled to an appeal to the Circuit Court of the
county, as in other cases of appeal from judgments
of Justices of the Peace.
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Appeal.
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