1184 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 471

creek, the center of the creek shall be marked in a similar
manner to prevent any infringement on the rights of persons
owning the opposite shore.

(b) Haul seines of greater length than 160 fathoms are
prohibited in the Potomac River and its tributaries, and in the
Wicomico River and its tributaries between Maryland Point
in Charles County and Cheseldine's Island in St. Mary's
County, between the 1st day of June and the 14th day of
March next succeeding, both dates inclusive, and it shall be un-
lawful to set any fish trap or apparatus of like description near
the mouth of any of the tributaries of the said Potomac and
Wicomico Rivers within Charles County between the aforesaid
lines mentioned above.

Sec. 33. Dorchester County, (a) It shall be unlawful for
any person to use haul seine or seine of any description, or
what is commonly called a put-net, for the purpose of catching
fish in the following waters, to wit: Transquaking River and
Chicacomico River and their tributaries, Little Black Water
River, White Hall Creek, Hurst's Creek, Shoal Creek and
Jenkins Creek; and in all other tributaries of the Choptank,
it shall be unlawful to haul seine between the 21st day of May
and the 31st day of July, both dates inclusive in each year.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, put or
allow his nets to catch fish in the waters of the northwest prong
of the Nanticoke River between the hours of 12 P. M. on
Saturday to 12 P. M. on Sunday of each and every week.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to use patent twine
weirs, or other twine weirs, pound nets and hauling seine of
greater length than 350 feet, in Fishing Bay, Honga River_?
Black Water River and its tributaries (except Little Black-
water River), Little Choptank River and its tributaries (ex-
cept Oyster Creek or Bay); or to fasten or stick stakes in that
part of Blackwater River lying between a line drawn from
Grog Point to the opposite side of the river and a line drawn
from Berge's Ditch to the opposite side of the river, except in
the bends of the river where stake weirs now exist.

(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to use gill nets in
the waters of Fishing Bay or Transquaking River north of a
line drawn from Blackwater Point to Irish Creek, up the
Transquaking River to Destroys Creek; or to set nets in the
aforesaid waters whose farther end shall extend more than