The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-23

Public Local Laws.
EuEl.ISllED ny AUTHORITY.
tHAPTER 20.

AN AZ ! Ia repeal Chapter 10 of he Acts pass.
ed AZ The january Session, eighteen and seven
weight, entitled an Act To repeal an Act pass.
ed n the session of the General Assembly of
Maryland in eighteen hundred and scVentysi
chapter 2I!, entitled an Act 10 repeal IN Act
passed ut the session the General Assembly
Of Maryland IN eighteen hundred and seventy
four, chapter ~, entitled an Act to repeal
section two, Of Article tortyunr, of the Pub.
lie General Laws ot Maryland, title "Fi-h and
Fisheries, and IL rc-rnact the sane with
amendments, and To substitute the following
in lien thereof, and to amend and rc.enact so
rs To read as follows, and To amend and Te-en.
act the same as amended.
SECTION l. Re il tH0ried by Mc G,nc,R ixse0,.
hy oT .Hryidnd, That the Ac passed al the scs-
sion of the General Assembly, eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight, chapter 2i6, entitled an Act
10 repeal an Act passed At the session Of the
General Assembly of Maryland, eighteen hun.
bred aud seventy-sN, chapter a52, entitled an
Act to repeal an Act passed nj the session of the
General Assembly in eighteen and seyenty-four.
chapter 42l, of the Public General Laws of Mary.
land, title "Fish and Fisheries and to re enact
the same with amendments and 10 substitute
the following in lieu thereof, he and the same
is hereby repealed, amended and re enacted so
as to read as follows:
SEC. l. No person shall from the tenth day
of June 20 the first day of Octobcr, in each year
fish with hanling seine or drag net of any kind
within the Chesapeake Bay or any of its tribu-
taries lying northward of the following line
Beginning ut Still Pond, in Kent county, and
drawn westward 10 Legocs Point in Hartford
county.
SEC. 2. -iHd he il enacted, That any person or
persons violating any of the provisions of this
Act upon conviction thereof before any Justice
of the Peace of the county in which said Act has
been violated, shall pay fine of fifty dollars,
(one.half of which shall go to the iniormer,) and
any hauling seine or hauling seincs drag net or
drag nets, and the boat or boats and the mater
ial used In fishing the same, are hereby declared
to be forfeited, and the Justice or Justices be.
fore whom said conviction and condemnation
shall he had, is authorized and directed to have
said fishing apparatus sold by the sheriff or con.
stable making said arrest, TO the highest bidder,
and The proceeds, together with half the fine af.
County Commissioners of the county in which
said oil, nee shall be committed, for the use of
the school fund of said county.
SEC g. Ind be il enacted, That any person or
persons, on conviction, falling to pay the fine as
prescribed in the preceding section shall be i'm.
prisoned in the county Jail of the county in
witch said offence shall be committed; pyOoided
horeer that any one so offending shall, upon
before any Justice of the Peace of the
county in which said offence shall be committed,
have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court of
the county in which said offence shall be com. |
mitted under the same restrictions governing
appeals from the decisions of Justices of the |
Peace.
SEC. 1. Ind be il enacted, That this Act shall |
take effect from the date of its passage
Approved March, 1880.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegat
EUGENE HIGGINS,
ap28 Secretary OF the Senate.