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Fine for vio- 

 lation. 



not less than five dollars nor more than ten 

 dollars, for each offence, and upon failing to 

 pay snch line and cost of prosecution shall be 

 sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail 

 of the county in which the offence has been 

 committed for a period not exceeding ten days, 

 said fine to be paid to the ( ounty Commission- 

 ers for the use of the county ; provided, how- 

 ever, that any person so convicted shall have 

 the right of appeal to the next term of the 

 county court. 



lash or beat the 

 waters. 



CECIL COUNTY. 



Cliapter 27, Laws 1880, repeals Cliapter 449, 

 Laws 1878, and enacts the following in lieu 

 tJiereof : 



1. It shall not be lawful for any person to 

 Not lawful to lash or beat the waters of the Elk and Bohemia 

 rivers with rods, poles or sticks, or any other 

 instrument, or to make noises on the decks of 

 any boat or any part of said boat for the pur- 

 pose of driving fish into any net or seine within 

 a half mile of Plum, Locust, Henderson's, Rich 

 Neck, Welsh, Lorts or Oldfield's points on 

 Heron island on the Elk river, or Town. Kich, 

 Parlor, Long, Hackett's or George's point on 

 the Bohemia river, when said points and island 

 are occuj)ied by persons engaged in gunning for 

 wild fowl with decoys in the water nor within 

 a half mile of the brido-e over the Bohemia 

 river when occupied by persons gunning for 

 wild fowl from said bridge, unless the consent 

 of such persons is first obtained to such fishing 

 as aforesaid. Nor shall it be lawful to fish as 

 aforesaid on the waters of the Elk and Bohemia 

 rivers from the first day of April to the first 

 day of September of each year. 



Consent to be 

 obtained. 



Fines — how 

 recovered. 



2. Any person violating any of the provisions 

 of this act shall, upon arrest and conviction 

 thereof before a Justice of the Peace in and for 

 Cecil county, be hned not less than ten nor 

 more than twenty-ffve dollars, to be recovered 

 as other small debts are recovered. And all 



