EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1113

CHAPTER 541.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
185F and 185G of Article 10 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester County, " sub-title
"Fish, " as enacted by Chapter 537 of the Acts of 1910.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 185F and 185G of Article 10 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester
County, " sub-title "Fish, " as enacted by Chapter 537 of the
Acts of 1910, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments to read as follows:

Section 185F. The owner or owners or occupants of any
land bordering on either side of the Transquakin River or any
of its tributaries within a line drawn from Irish Creek to
Transquakin point (said line marking the mouth of the said
Transquakin River) to the head of the Transquakin River,
shall in every year have the exclusive right and privilege to
select half the area covered by said waters lying directly in
front of the property, extending to but not beyond the middle
of said river, which he or they respectively own or occupy, for
the purpose of setting gill nets, fike nets, trap or set nets of
any kind or description; provided that any resident of Dor-
cester County, other than the said owner or occupant, who may
desire to set any of the aforesaid described nets in said River
may demand in writing of the said owner or occupant of the
aforesaid lands on which said half of the area that he or they
own or occupy, intend to set any of the aforesaid nets, and upon
receipt of such notice in writing, the owner or occupant of said
lands must give said applicant a definite answer in writing
within fifteen days of the receipt of such notice of such inten-
tion, and forthwith proceed to exercise his or their rights in
the setting of said nets, and upon his or their failure so to do,
the said resident giving such notice shall have the right to set
such nets on any part of the said areas. Provided, however,
that fike nets, trap or set nets shall not be less than 200 yards
apart.

Section 185G. Any person or persons who shall interfere
with or destroy any net or nets set in accordance with the
provisions of the preceding Section, or any person who shall
set any nets on any area reserved as provided in the aforegoing
section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof before a justice of the peace for Dorchester