ART. 41.] FISH AND FISHERIES. 311

offending shall be subject to the forfeiture and fine prescribed by
the next preceding section.

15*. The owner or occupiers of the regularly hauled fishing
landings are authorized to render any sheriff or other officer
assistance necessary to arrest any person violating any of the
provisions of the two preceding sections; and the said officer shall
seize all boats, seines and fixtures in possession of such person,
and carry the person so arrested before some justice of the peace,
to be dealt with as herein directed; and the said officer may
summons the posse comitatus to aid him in making arrest or
seizure authorized by this article, and may for that purpose also
press, at the expense of the State, any steamboat or other vessel
belonging to any citizen of this State not actually engaged in
carrying the United States mail.

16*. No person shall fish in the Potomac River or its tributaries
during the months of March, April, May and June with gill nets
or seines of any kind, other than such nets or seines as may be
laid out from and hauled to and landed upon the shores of the
said river and its tributaries; and every person so offending shall,
upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum not less than fifty
nor more than five hundred dollars, one-half of which sum shall
go to the informer, and the other half to the State; Provided,
that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent Dona
fide citizens of the counties bordering on the aforesaid waters
from fishing the shores they own or occupy as they have hitherto
been in the habit of doing.

17. If any person shall during the months mentioned in the
preceding section place any boat, vessel or other obstruction or
hindrance iu the way of laying out or hauling any seine used in
any lawful fishery on said river or its tributaries, or otherwise
obstruct or hinder such laying out or hauling, and he or his
agents shall fail or refuse forthwith to remove such obstruction
or hindrance on being required to do so by the person so ob-
structed or hindered, he shall pay a fine not less than twenty nor
more than one hundred dollars.

18. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously place any ob-
struction or hindrance in the way of laying out or hauling in
any seine in any lawful fishery upon the Potomac River or its
tributaries, or in any other manner or way prevent a bona fide
owner of a shore, or his agent or tenant, from using or fishing