308 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 41.

ARTICLE XLI.
Fish and fisheries.

HEAD OF THE BAT.

SEC. 1. No person, except resident citizens of this State, shall
fix, set or stake out any sort of gill nets, either stationary or
floating, or any device whatever, for the taking of herrings and
shad in the Chesapeake Bay at any time between the first of
March and the first of June in each year, and any person so
offending shall forfeit the vessel and tackle used in such fishing,
and all the nets, apparatus and devices for taking fish, and also
pay a fine of fifty dollars for each offence.

2. No person shall, during the months of June and July in each
year, fish by gill net or hauling seine within the waters of Chesa-
peake Bay or its tributaries lying within the bounds of Cecil or
Harford counties, and any person so offending shall forfeit the
boats and seines used by such offender at the time of violating
this section, and also pay a fine of not less than twenty nor more
than fifty dollars for each offence; this not to apply to seines
usually called market seines, which are used for catching summer
fish.

3. No person shall place in the head waters of the Chesapeake
Bay, or in the Sassafras, Elk, Bohemia, North East or Susque-
hanna Eivers, or in any of their tributaries, any stakes, piles or
other thing for the purpose of attaching seines or nets thereto,
with the view of taking shad or fish of any description; this not
to apply to any portion of said bay below Pool's Island.

4. No person shall attach to any stake, piles, or other thing
which shall be in said waters, any seine or nets for the purpose
mentioned in the preceding section; this not to apply to persons
who may set nets and attach them to poles not more than four
inches in diameter and not more than a mile and a half from
the shore south of Grove Point and on the eastern side of the
Chesapeake Bay; Provided, said poles are removed after fishing
season.