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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

To be at or

the place of said bridge, the said bridge to be at or

near.

near the land formerly belonging to George F.

Ward, or at some other place further up the said

creek as may be deemed best by said County Com-

missioners.

Purpose of

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose

building.

of building said bridge the said County Commis-

Empowered
to levy.

sioners arenereby authorized and empowered to levy
a sum of money upon the assessable property of said
county not exceeding one thousand dollars.

Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 199.

AN ACT to protect Trout in Baltimore county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Not lawful.

of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any

To capture

person or persons to take, catch or kill any speckled

trout.

or brook trout, either by angling or the capture

by the use of hook and line, spearing, fish basket or

fish weirs, seines, gill-nets, pound nets, purse seine, or

any other device known to capture trout, for the

space of three years from the first of August,

eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in any branch,

brook, creek or stream of water which has been or

may be stocked with trout in Baltimore county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or

persons found guilty of violating any provision of

Penalty.

this act shall, upon conviction, be fined twenty dol-

lars and costs, and in default of payment shall be

confined in the county jail for not less than ten nor

more than thirty days.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the violation of

any of the provisions of this act may be prosecuted

May be prose-

by any citizen of the county before a justice of the

cuted.

peace for said county, subject to an appeal to the

Circuit Court for said county, the informer to be a