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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1822.

CHAPTER 209.
An ACT to continue in force the Acts of Assembly which would expire
with the present session.

Laws

extended.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland^ That
all such acts, and parts of such acts of assembly, as would ex-
pire with the present session of assembly, be and the same are
hereby continued until the twentieth day of November next,
and to the end of the next session of assembly which shall
happen thereafter.

CHAPTER 214.

Aw ACT to protect the Fisheries in the Patuxent River.
Other laws are, 1828, ch. 128; 1832, ch. 264; 1837, ch. 291.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the general assembly,
that persons owning the shores of the Patuxent river, and hav-
ing established fisheries at the same, are frequently, greatly and
wantonly injured by the improper conduct of persons floating
gill nets ; therefore,

Penalty for
offence.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, if any person or
persons shall cause or permit his, her or their gill net or nets to
be floated across, over, or through the seine or seines of any
person or persons, whilst making what are commonly called
sweep hauls, the person or persons so causing or wilfully per-
mitting his, her or their gill net or nets to be floated across, over
or through the seine or seines, whilst so hauling, shall forfeit
and pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, one-half to the
informer the other half to the county where the offence is
committed.

Proceedings

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful,
and is hereby required of any justice of the peace in this state,
upon information, on oath, of such offence or offences having
been committed, to issue his warrant for the apprehension of
such offender or offenders, and when the person or persons so
offending shall be brought before him, to hear, adjudge and
decide the same, agreeably to the evidence produced, and that
for whatever sum he may deem proper, not exceeding twenty
dollars, he shall enter a judgment in the name of the state,
which sum shall be recovered in the same manner as all other
sums within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, are
recovered, one-half to be paid over by the constable collecting
the same to the clerk of the levy court for the county where
the offence was committed, and the other half to the informer.