310 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 41.

charge of such vessel, float or boat, if the sum does not exceed one
hundred dollars, and issue execution thereon as on other judg-
ments; and if the damages exceed one hundred dollars, then the
party injured may have an action on said ascertainment of
damages in the same manner as if it were an award; and in all
cases the damages so ascertained, shall be a lien on such vessel,
float or boat.

10. No float or other device for fishing shall be anchored or
located at any place so as to interfere with any shore fishery now
used as such, or which may be hereafter established, nor shall
any seine be hauled from such float or other device over the
ground usually hauled over by any shore fishery, and any person
violating this section shall for each offence pay a fine of twenty-
five dollars, and for every hour such float or other device shall
remain thus anchored or located after notice shall be given by
the owner or occupier of such shore fishery requiring him to
remove, he shall pay an additional fine of twenty-five dollars.

11. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously put any stake,
log, stone or other obstruction in the usual haul of any floating
battery, he shall pay a fine of twenty dollars.

POTOMAC.

12*. The fishing season for shad and herring in the waters of
the Potomac River shall begin the first day of March and end the
first day of June in each year.

13. If any person shall haul, drift, anchor or stake in the
Potomac River, or any of its tributaries in this State, any gill
nets or seine of any description, (except those commonly called
market seines for summer and winter fish, and sturgeon nets with
eight inches mesh,) at any time not within the period fixed by
the preceding section, he shall forfeit all the boats, seines and
fixtures then in his possession, and be fined for each offence not
less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.

14*. No person shall haul, drift or fish any seine or gill net
within the water bounds or berths of any regularly hauled fishing
landing, nor opposite to any part of the shore of the owner or
occupiers of any fishery, between the first day of March and the
first day of June in each year, without the permission of the
owner or occupiers of such fishing landing; and any person so