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within two days from the rendition of such judgment; the tenant in
order to stay any execution of the judgment, shall give a bond to the
landlord with one or more securities, who are owners of sufficient
leasehold or real estate in Baltimore City, or the tenant shall provide
such security in the form of either a corporate or cash bond, with
condition to persecute the appeal with effect, and answer to the
landlord, his executors, administrators, in all costs and damages
mentioned in the judgment, and such other damages as shall be
incurred and sustained by reason of said appeal; the aforesaid bond
shall not affect in any manner the right of the lessor to proceed
against said tenant, assignee or under tenant for any and all rents
that may become due and payable to the lessor after the rendition
of said judgment.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved April 10, 1968.

CHAPTER 157
(Senate Bill 569)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 293 of
Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Natural Resources," subtitle "Fish and
Fisheries," subheading "Tidal Waters," to decrease the minimum
legal size of sea trout or weakfish, which may be caught.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 293 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume) title "Natural Resources," subtitle
"Fish and Fisheries," subheading "Tidal Waters," be and it is here-
by repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

293.

No person shall catch or in any manner take or kill, sell, offer to
buy or sell or expose for sale, or have in possession any bass, large
or small mouth, less than 9 inches; any catfish less than 8 inches; any
perch, white or yellow, less than 8 inches, if taken or caught in any
manner other than by hook or line; any pike or walleyed pike less
than 14 inches; any rock, otherwise known as striped bass, less
than 12 inches in length or weighing more than 15 pounds, it shall
be lawful, however, in the Susquehanna River above Hog Back
Shoals and in all waters of the State of Maryland at any time of the
year except from March 1 to and including June 15 to catch striped
bass weighing more than fifteen (15) pounds, provided said striped
bass so taken are caught only with a hook and line and not sold or
offered for sale and not more than one per day for each person; any
sturgeon weighing less than 25 pounds, and taylor or bluefish less
than 8 inches; any sea trout or weakfish less than [10] 9 inches; any
hardheads or croakers less than 10 inches; any butterfish less than
6 inches; measurement in the case of each fish shall be from the tip
of the nose to the end of the caudal fin or tail.