1180 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 471

waters of this State with nets of any description. Nothing in
the above shall be construed to permit such citizen to fish in
any tributary waters beyond the jurisdictional limits of the
county whereof he is a resident or land owner, except that resi-
dents or land owners of the counties bordering on a dividing
river may fish such river in common, but not in any creek, cove,
river, inlet or sound emptying into the said dividing river and
lying wholly within a county other than the one of which he is
a resident or land owner, except as provided for in Section
22, sub-title "Riparian Rights, " except that a non-resident of
one county may fish in the waters within the jurisdictional
limits of another county after having first obtained the written
permission of the abutting land-owner and providing further
that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the catch-
ing of eels.

METHOD OF FISHING.

Sec. 26. It shall not be lawful to take or catch fish for com-
mercial purposes in the tidal waters of this State by the use
of a drag net or drag seine, hauled by boat (purse and buck
net excepted), beam trawl, trammel net or troll net, or any
similar destructive device.

REGULATION OF NETS AND SEINES.

Sec. 27. Unless otherwise provided, it shall be unlawful
to set, place, construct or use any net of any description except
purse or buck net and floating gill nets, in the waters of this
State at a distance greater than one-third the distance across
the waters of any bay, sound, river, creek, cove or inlet where
such net may be set or used; nor shall any pound or stake nets
be closer to another than 400 yards in a parallel line. Nor
shall any single line of fish net stakes, including the pound or
head and leader or hedging have a length greater than 1, 000
feet and between successive pounds or gill nets in the same
row, clear and unobstructed intervals of at least 200 feet shall
be maintained; nor shall any stake project out of the water
less than 2 feet above the surface of the water at all stations
of the tide. The outer end of each pound net shall be plainly
marked by a brush or other suitable day marker, readily dis-
cernible to indicate the opening between nets. The name of the
owner and the license number of each pound net shall be dis-
played in black letters not less than 2 inches in height upon a
white background on a stake at the outer end of the pound, at