risn Am fisheries. 



PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS, ART. 4L 



HEAD OF BAY. 



Sec, 1 . No person except resident citizens of A'one save 

 this State, shall fix, set or stake out any set of ^7^^^"''* '''*-" 

 gill-nets, either stationary or floating, or any de- 

 vice whatever, for the taking of Herring and Shad 

 in the Chesapeake Bay, at any time between the 

 first of March and the first of June in each year, 

 and any person so offending shall forfeit the ves- 

 sel and tackle used in such fishing, and all the Forfeiture, 

 nets, apparatus and devices for taking fish, and 

 also pay a fine of fifty dollars for each oftence. 



Law.s 1868, C/uqj. 421, Sec. 2. TJds Act re- 

 peals Sec. 2, Art. 41, Code of Public General Laws 

 and re-enacts the same as in the text. 



Sec. 2. No person shall, from the tenth day of siiaii only «ge 

 June until the thirty-first of July, in each year, ^'''^ 

 fish by gill-net or hauling seine, within the waters 

 of the Chesapeake Bay, lying within the hounds of 

 Cecil, Kent and Harford counties, or any of its 

 tributaries within said counties, unless with seines 

 usually called market seines, which are used for 

 catching summer fish; nor shall any person except 

 I'esident citizens of this State, or the owners or 

 tenants of lands or shores bordering on any of said 

 waters so lying within said counties, fish by gill- 

 net, hauling seine, or any device whatever, within 

 the aforesaid waters, at any period of the year, 

 unless by permission of the owners or tenants of 

 the lands or shores aforesaid ; and any person 

 violating and offending against either provision of 

 this section sliall forfeit the boats, nets and seine. Forfeiture, 

 or other fixtures used by such offender at the time 

 of so viohitiim" the same. 



