JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 695

Talbot and Caroline counties, and with immense
and improper seines have been engaged in catching
and taking fish, and
WHEREAS, The quantity of fish in said waters is
fast diminishing, it is wise and prudent that some	Preamble.
effectual means should be adopted if possible to pre-
serve the breed thereof, and
WHEREAS, Non-residents of this State have been	Preamble.
in the habit of fishing in said waters and destroying
great numbers of young and small fish, and besides
have on various occasions, landed on the shores of
said waters and committed sundry depredations upon
the lands of the owners thereof, and have made their
escape before legal process could reach them ; there-
fore —
SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That sections one hundred and thirteen and	Repealed and
one hundred and fourteen, of article ten, of the Code	substituted in lieu
of Public Local Laws, entitled " Dorchester county,"
and sections eighty-six and eighty-seven, of article
twenty, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Talbot
county, and also sections ninety and ninety-one, of
article six, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Car-
oline county, be and the" same are hereby repealed,
and the following substituted for said sections of
each of the aforesaid counties under sub-title " fish."
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-
ful for any person, with the exception of bona fide	Not be lawful.
resident voters of Dorchester, Talbot and Caroline
counties, and they shall first obtain permission of
the occupants or owners of lands bordering on said
waters, of said counties heretofore named, to take or
catch fish in the waters of said counties, with seines,
with meshes of less size than five inches square.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-	Not be lawful.
ful for any person to empty their seines in water less
than twelve inches deep; and all persons violating
the two preceding sections of this act, in either of
the aforesaid counties, shall, upon conviction thereof
before a justice of the peace, in the county where the
offence shall be committed, be fined not less than
five nor more than fifty dollars, or shall be subject	Penalty.