1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 104

CHAPTER 104.

Passed Feb.
28, 1860.

AN ACT to amend the twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth,
sixteenth sections of the forty-first article of the
Code of Public General Laws, so as to change
the time of fishing in the Potomac river, to pro-
hibit persons from fishing with seines or gill
nets, opposite the shores of the owner or occu-
piers of any fishery, to provide for a proper en-
forcement of the provisions of the said sections
and to define the rights of bona fide citizens of
the counties bordering on said river.

Repealed.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth,
and sixteenth sections of the forty-first article of
the Code of Public General Laws, relating to fish
and fisheries be and the same are hereby repealed,
and the following enacted as a substitute for the
twelfth section of the forty-first article of the Code
of Public General Laws: The fishing season for shad

Fishing sea-
son.

and herring in the waters of the Potomac river,
shall begin the first day of March and end the first
day of June in each year.

Persons pro-
hibited from
fishing, at
certain times,
without per-
mission.

SEC. 2. And the following enacted as a substitute
for the fourteenth section of said article: No person
shall haul, drift or fish any seine or gill net within
the waters, bounds or berths of any regularly
hauled fishing landing, nor opposite to any part of
the shore of the owner or occupiers of any fishery
between the first day of March, and the first day
of June in each year, without the permission of the
owner or occupier of such fishing landing, and any
person so offending, shall be subject to the forfeiture
and fine prescribed by the next preceding section.

Authorised
to arrest vio-
lators.

SEC. 3. And the following enacted as a substitute
for the fifteenth section of said article; The owner
or occupiers of the regularly hauled fishing land-
ings, are authorised to render any sheriff or other
officer, assistance necessary to arrest any person
violating any of the provisions of the two preced-
ing sections, and the said officer shall seize all boats,
seines and fixtures in the possession of such person
and carry the person so arrested before some justice
of the peace, to be dealt with as herein directed,
and the said officer may summons the posse comi-