484 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

title "Dorchester County," sub-title "Fish," regulating the
use of fish nets or weirs in certain waters of Fishing Bay.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 185-C of Article 10 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester County," sub-title
'' Fish,'' be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 185-C. 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 Black-
water Point to Irish Creek, up the Transquakin River to De-
stroys Creek, or to set or to 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 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 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 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 unlawful 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 said weir or net may
be set or fished, and it shall be unlawful to set or fish weirs
closer than two hundred yards of each other in the waters of the
Transquakin River and Chicacomico River, and it shall also be
unlawful in the waters of Fishing Bay, south of a line drawn
from Blackwater Point to Irish Creek, and north of a line drawn
from Roasting Ear Point to Duck Island Point, 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, and it shall also be unlawful in the waters of Fishing
Bay, south of said line drawn from Roasting Bar Point to Duck
Island Point, to set any weir beyond a depth of eighteen feet of