PtlBLIC LOCAL LaWB. XLHI 



move sucli putrid fish and pickle, and cleanse the 

 vessel used in curing fish, and on refusal, or neg- 

 lect so to do, for the space of five days thereafter, 

 shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars; the said 

 penalties to be recovered before a Justice of the 

 Peace for Harford county as small debts, the one- 

 half to the informer and the other half to the 

 county. 



Laios 186t, Chapter 47, enact — 



Sec. ] . Be. it enacted by the General Assembly q/'pishing limits 

 3Iarylaml, That the fishing season in the waters ^^' 

 of Romney Creek, in Harford county, shall begin 

 on the fifteenth day of March, and end on the first 

 day of October succeeding in each and every year, 

 and fishing in every mode and manner is hereby pro- 

 hibited in said creek, for the time intervening be- 

 tween the first day of October and the fifteenth day 

 of March succeeding in each and every year. 



Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be c«itain prac- 

 lawful for any person or persons to whip or beat ^^^^^ declared 

 the waters of Eornney Creek, in Harford county, 

 with 23oles, sticks or any other thing for the pur- 

 pose of driving fish hito seines, fish-baskets or any 

 other contrivances for catching fish, nor for the 

 purpose, or which will have the effect of driving 

 or frightening wild ducks or waterfowl of any de- 

 scription from their breeding or roosting grounds 

 in said creek, or to erect any fish-pot, or to fish 

 with any drag-net, fish-basket, or any other snare 

 during the time intervening between the first day 

 of October and the fifteenth day of March succeed- 

 ing, in each and every year. 



Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if auy person 

 shall violate any of the provisions of this Act, he Tenaity for 

 shall, for every such offence, upon conviction be-°°° com'pU- 

 fore any Justice of the Peace of Harford county, 

 be fined a sum not less than ten dollars nor more 

 than thirty dollars, one-half of said amount to be 

 given to the informer, and the other half to be 

 paid over to the School Commissioners of said 

 county for school purposes. 



Sec. 4. And be it enacted. That in the event of-Tobe impris- 

 the failure or refusal of any person so convicted o°ed. 

 to pay such fiiie, the Justice of the Peace impos- 

 ing the fine, shall commit him to the Jail of Har- 

 ford county, for not less than thirty, nor more 

 than sixty days. 



