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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1823

!3 corporation, shall be in the name of the president and stewards of
the Fell's Point Washington Beneficial Society, and that all process
that may be hereafter instituted against the said society, shall be
served on the president on behalf of the same.

Proceedings
and powers.

7. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said
corporation and their successors forever hereafter, to have a com-
mon seal for their use, and the same at the will and pleasure of them
and their successors, to change, alter, break and make anew from time
to time, as they shall think best, and shall in general have and exer-
cise all such rights, franchises, privileges and immunities as by law
are incident and necessary to corporations of this kind, and which
may be necessary to the corporation herein and hereby constituted
and erected, to enable them duly and fully in the law, to execute all
things touching and concerning the design and intent of their said
corporation, for the benevolent succour, relief and good order of its
members, and the widows and orphans of deceased members of the
said society, agreeably to the constitution and such rules and bye-
laws as may be established by the said society.

Dissolution.
Proviso.

8. And be it enacted, That if at any time it may he deemed ne-
cessary to dissolve this association, a proposition to that effect shall
be laid on the table in writing, at a stated meeting of the society,
and may be discussed at their next stated or special meeting, but
shall not be finally decided on until it has been one full month be-
fore the society, and shall not take effect, unless three fourths of the
members residing within the city and precincts of Baltimore are in
favor thereof; provided each member of this corporation shall be in-
dividually liable for the debts to be contracted, or that shall be con-
tracted by the directors thereof by virtue of their corporate powers.

Passed Jan.
28, 1824.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 82.

An act for the preservation of the breed of fish in Antietam Creek.
WHEREAS, sundry inhabitants of Washington county, by their pe-
tition to the general assembly, have set forth, that it is their inten-
tion to introduce the fish of other streams to that of the Antietam
creek, provided a sufficient protection can be given to those intro-
duced, as well as the native fish of said stream, and praying the aid
and interference of the legislature in their behalf; Therefore,

Offence and
penalty.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
if any free person shall whip or beat the water in the Antietam creek,
or its tributary streams, Beaver creek, Long Meadow Branch, and
Little Antietam, as far up those tributary streams as the first mill
dams, from the Antietam, with poles, sticks or other things for the
purpose of driving the fish into nets, seines, fish baskets, or other
snare, or shall erect any fish pot, or suffer those already erected, to
remain two months after the passage of this act, or shall fish with
any net, basket, gig, trot lines, or in any other manner, except with
the angling rod, during the term of three years, to commence from
the first day of March next, and from the first day of March to the
fifteenth day of June in each and every year thereafter, such person
so offending shall forfeit and pay for each offence,and for every month
a fish pot is suffered to remain., the sum of ten dollars, to be recover-
ed by action of debt in the name of the levy court of Washing-
ton county, before a justice of the peace, one half to the informer,
the other half to the school fund of Washington county.

Slaves offen-
ding.

2. And be it enacted, That if any slave shall whip and beat the
water in said Antietam creek, or its tributary streams, as far up