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Sectiojn^ 1. Be it enacted by the General As- 

 seinhly of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful 

 for any person or persons to take, capture or 

 destroy Ash in the waters of Chester River or 

 its tributaries in Kent and Queen Anne coun- 

 ties, by seines, drag-nets, set-nets, fish-baskets, 

 fish-jiots, weirs, pound-nets, fykes or any other 

 Unlawful to means or contrivance whatsoever, which is now 

 capture s . ]^i^q-^y|-^ gr used in the capturing or destroying 

 fish, or which may hereafter be invented for 

 that purpose, fronj the tenth day of May to the 

 first day of September, excex)t with hook and 

 line ; provided, however, that seines or nets 

 may be used for the taking of taylors and mack- 

 erel fish, provided the meshes of such nets or 

 seines are in the bar not less than one and 

 seven- eighth inches, or in the mesh less than 

 three and three-quarter inches. 



Sec. 2. And he it enacted. That it shall not 

 be lawful for any person or persons who use 

 stakes or poles in setting nets of whatever class 

 or description, in the waters mentioned in the 

 first section of this act, to leave such stakes or 

 Unlawful to polcs lu tlie waters where they were used, but 

 water.^*^^^^ '" shall reuiovc, or have removed, such stakes or 

 poles from the waters where they were used, on 

 or before the twentieth day of May in each 

 year, nor shall they again be put down in said 

 waters prior to the twentieth day of Sex^t ember 

 following. 



Sec. 3. And he it enacted, That for any per- 

 son or X)ersons, in said waters, in the first sec- 

 tion of this act, to empty their seines upon the 

 beach or shore at any time whilst engaged in 

 fishing, so as to leave the smaller fish to X3erish, 

 Not to empty \^^i %q euiptY tlie sauic lu water of sufficient 



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shore. depth to cuable the smaller fish to return to 



the waters for growth and maturation, and any 

 person or persons using seines, pound-nets, 

 fish-baskets, fykes, traps or nets of any class 

 or description that catch the fish alive, shall 

 immediately cull them and return the small 

 fish to the waters at the place where they were 

 taken. 



