LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1843.

O'Chappell, acting administrator of Henry Lilly, late
sheriff and collector of Montgomery county, be and he is
hereby empowered to collect all Fees, taxes and levies in
the same manner in which the said Henry Lilly, in his life

chap. 275.

time was authorized to do whilst he was in office, provi-
ded, that if any person or persons, his or hei or their re-
presentatives againit whom any such fees or taxes may
have been rendeied, will make oath or affirmation before
a justice of the peace, that the same has been satisfied or
paid, that this act shall not extend to such cases, and
provided also, that the powers confeired by this act shall
not continue in force longer than the first of Match one
thousand eight bundled and forty-six.

Provisoes.

CHAPTER 275.

An act to preserve the breed of Fish in the waters of the
Chesapeake Bay, and for other purposes.

Passed March
8, 1844.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, it
shall not be lawful for any person or persons, to place
or cause to be placed in the head waters of the Chesa-
peake bay or the Sasafras, Elk, Bohemias, Noith East, or
Susquehanna rivers, any stakes, piles or other pieces of
timber for the purpose of attaching seines or nets thereto,
with the view of taking shad or fish of any description;

Persons for-
bid.

provided, that nothing contained in this act shall be so
construed to apply to any portion of the Chesapeake bay,
below Pool's Island.

Proviso.

Seo. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful
for any person or persons to attach or cause to be attach-
ed to any stake, plies or other pieces of timber, which
shall now or may hereafter be in said waters, any seine or
nets for the above mentioned purposes.

Seines forbid,
&c.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all persons violating
either of the foregoing sections of this act shall forfeit
and pay for each and every such offence, the sum of fifty
dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace
or magistrate's courts as the case may be, of the State of
Maryland, as other small debts are recovered, one half to
the use of the informer, the other half to the state, or in
case of the person or persons so offending, failing to pay
such fine or forfeiture, to be confined in the county jail
for not more than twelve nor less than six months.

Subject to fine
of $60.