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PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS. XLMl 



HARFORD COLNTY. 



Cixle Public Loca/ Laics. Arl. \'l. 



Sec. :)8. The County Civ..jmissii)iiei's ot liaiTm-d !>'ity of «v,i)- 

 f'oiintv, sliall apjioint auniially a Constable \\\ the 

 (listriel atljoiniug tlie Bald Friar Ferry, on \\\v 

 Siisrjiielianna River, whose dnty it shall be to ex- 

 amine every lisli pot erected in the river, at least 

 once a week in the season the young Shad usually 

 descend the river, and if they find any fish nets 

 erected in the river within the limits of TTari'ord 

 county, not constructed so as to admit the free 

 j)assage of young Sliad, or witlj tlie l)ottom thereof 

 covered with a basket or any other device, so as to 

 close the o])ening therein whereby the young shad 

 may be destroyed, they will give notice thereof to 

 any Justice of the Peace of the county, who shall 

 upon such information of said Constable, or of any 

 other person on oath, issue his warrant to appre- 

 hend such ovfner and take him before some Jus- 

 tice of the Peact) of the county, and he shall, by 

 the Justice before whom he may be taken, be com- 

 pelled ti) enter into recognizance for his appear- 

 ance at the next term of the Circuit Court foi' 

 Harford countv. 



Sec. :'.*.). The person so arrested shall be pro- iiuii'-tmeiit. 

 ceeded against b)' indictment in the Circuit Court 

 aforesaid, and upon conviction or confession of the 

 offence charged, shall be fined by tlu? Court not 

 exceeding sixty dollars for any such offence, one- Fine. 

 half to the Constable aforesaid, or such other pei- 

 as shall })rosecute the same, the other half to the 

 use of the county. 



Sec. 40. Tlie said Constable, for the discharge pny or ConstE 

 of the duties aforesaid, and Ujion his making tlie '''t"- 

 oath thereto, shall be allowed by the County Com- 

 missioners, the sum of sixteen dollars per annum. 



Sec. 41. If any 2'ei"s«>n using a fishery on the 

 west side of the Susquehanna River, shall, for tlie 

 space of ten days after the expiration of the fish- I'.MiaUy. 

 ing season, neglect to remove any putrifying iiickle 

 from the fishing shore, and cleanse the vessels used 

 in curing fish, or suffer (juantities of fish to re- 

 main and putrefy on the fishing shore he shall for- 

 feit the suni of five dollars and immediat(dv re- 



