1900 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 642

38.

(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, Big and Little Black Water Rivers,
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.

It shall be unlawful to use haul seines in Fish Bay, Little

Choptank, Great Choptank, and Honga Rivers in Dor-

chester County during the months of July and August each

year.

(b) 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 Black Water River and its
tributaries (except Little Blackwater River), [Little Chop-
tank River and its tributaries (except 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.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all of the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 30, 1951.

CHAPTER 642

(House Bill 494)
AN ACT to authorize and direct the Police Commissioner

of Baltimore City to re-instate Mr. Walter Dziwulski as
a member of the Police Department of Baltimore City.

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