PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 589

Public Local Laws of Maryland inconsistent herewith be and
the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 366.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Sections 81
and 86 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title
''Fish and Fisheries," sub-title "Trout and other Fish" (the
references herein being to Bagby's Code).

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 81 and 86 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, (Bagby's Code) title "Fish and Fisheries,"
sub-title "Trout and other Fish," be and they are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments as follows:

SEC. 81. And be it further enacted, That every owner of a
dam or dams upon any of the said waters of this State is hereby
required to make and keep in repair, or cause to be made and
kept in repair, and placed upon said dam or dams at least one
fish ladder of such character as to enable fish to have a free
course up and down said waters at all times under a penalty
of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars for each and every offense; provided that one-half the
cost of constructing said fish ladders, upon dams in Harford
County now in existence, shall be borne by the County Commis-
sioners of said County.

SEC. 86. And be it further enacted, That all Acts and parts-
of Acts, and all Sections and parts of Sections of the Code, both
of General and Local Laws, and all amendments of and addi-
tions and supplements thereto, now in force in the State of
Maryland, inconsistent with the provisions of 78 to 86, with
the exception only of Chapter 427 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the session of 1896, are hereby
repealed; provided that nothing in the said Sections shall apply
to Frederick, Baltimore, Howard, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's,
St. Mary's, Wicomico, Charles, Talbot, Worcester, Calvert or
Somerset Counties or to Baltimore City.