Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1886-05-07

thereon dangerous to life and property.
IT shall be the duty of the Commits
sloners of the county in which such
point of crossing shall be located TO
notify the company owning or operat-
ing the railroad at such point by serv-
ing a written notice on the Superin-
tendent or other agent of such rail-
road company in said county, that the
SAID County Commissioners will, thirty
days thereafter, consider the necessity
OF further protection against danger
at SAID crossing; and if after the ex-
piratlon of said thirty days, said
County Commissioners, or a majority
of them, shall determine that such pro-
lection is necessary, they shall notify
SAID railroad company through its
superintendent or ticket agent in said
county, that within sixty DAYS there
after said railroad company shall either
place fiagman at said crossing whose
duty it shall be to give timely notice
TO all persons using said crossing of
the approach of Ill locomotives or
trains, or a system of electric alarm
bells to give such notice at approach
of trains, or shall erect safety gates at
SAID crossing, which shall be closed
not less than one-half minute before
the passage and during the passage of
every railroad train or locomotive
across said highway; or shall change
the said grade crossing so as to pass
said highway with an under or over
grade crossing, in which case neither
tlagman nor safety gate shall be re-
quired.
SEC. 9. Ind be IL enacted, That if
any railroad company shall neglect or
refuse to comply with the requirements
OF the SAID County Commissioners as
provided for by section one of this
Act, said railroad company will be
liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars
per day for each and every day it
shall neglect or refuse so to do.
SEC. 3. And be 10 enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the said County
Commissioners to enforce the pay
ment of fines imposed by this Act, as
other haeS are collected, before the
Circuit Court of said county, aud the
States Attorney thegeof shall attend
the prosecution of all such suits
when directed so to do by the said
Auuhty commissioners.
Sec, 4. And be ii enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the date
of its passage,
Approved April 7,lSS6,
We hereby certify, that the afore-
gong Is u correct copy of an Act of
the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed January Session, 1886.
W. G. PVRNEI.L,
Secretary OF the Senate.
e. b. PRETTYMAN,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
CHAPTER 2Q6,
AN ACT to repeal chapter five hun
dred and eighteen of the Acts
passed by the General Assembly of
Maryland, at the January Session
eighteen hundred and eigbty=four,
being an Act to repeal Article sew
enty-one Of tho Code of Public
General Laws, entitled "Oysters,"
sand to re-enact same with ameud-
ments, ard provide further police
regulations for the protection Of the
oysters IN the waters of this State.
SECTION /. BE IL endcte9 kn the GeneyaI
assembly Of NarykaAd, That chapter
five hundred and eighteen of the A cts
of the General Assembly, passed at the
January Session eighteen hundred and
eighty-fpHF, bp and the same is hereby
repealed and the following enacted Ia
lieu thereof, to be Article seventy one,
of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Oysters."
SEC. 2. And be 1t enqcfed, That no
steamer shall be used or employed in
catching or taking oysters in the
waters of this State with scoop, dredge
or similar instrument; and no other
boat shall be used in catching oysters
with scoop, dredge or similar instru-
ment without first having been licensed
as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 3. And be IL eaacted, That the
Comptroller of tho Treasury shall,
upon application of any person who
has been n resident of this State for
twelve consecutive months next pre-
ceding such application, and to no
other person, issue license to such
resident to employ such boat, in taking
or catching oysters, with scoop, dredge
or similar instrument within the waters
of Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River
and in Eastern Bay, outside of q line
drawn from the Southwest corner of
second Kent Point to Wade's Point;
provided, that nothing herein CON
tanned shall authorize the taking or
catching OF oysters with scoop, dredge
or similar instrument on any oyster
bar within one and half miles of
Talley's Point, Sandy Point, Hackett's
Point, Thomas Point, Hollands Island
Bar and Three Sisters, nor within one
and one half miles Of Hollands Point
Bar pQr at Swan's Point Bar; nor be-
tween Poplar Island and the mainland
of Talbot county, south of a line drawn
from the north point of Poplar Island
to Louis Point on tho mainland, nor
North of q line drawn from the end Of
the south bar Of Poplar Island to Paw
Paw Cove on Tilghman's Island; nor
within pne.fourth Of mile west Of
Poplar Island; nor within one-half Of
a mile of Plum Point; nor within the
boundary lines Of any county, unless
herein otherwise specified; which
license shall hold good for one season
only, and shall only authorize the
catching of oysters between the if
teenth day Of October and the first day
Of April, on which day the dredging
season shall end and the license expire;