36 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 4:]

taking and catching of fish; provided, nothing in this section
shall apply to any person using a net .solely far the purpose of
supplying his awn table. Such oyster inspector or other
authorized officer shall thereupon grant license to use such net
or other device, and state in such license the name or names
of the person or persons who shall use the same, the place at
which it is to be located or used, the season for which said
license is granted, which season shall begin on the first day of
February in any year and end on the thirty-first day of Janu-
ary of the year following, and the amount of tax as prescribed
by the laws of the State where issued.

Any citizen of either Maryland or Virginia desiring to take
or catch crabs from the waters of the Potomac River by any
method, or any person desiring to engage in the business of
buying crabs for picking or canning or shipping the same, shall
pay to the oyster inspector or other designated official in the
district in which he resides such specific license tax as is pre-
scribed by the State of which he is a resident.

If any person shall use or set, or cause to be used or set, any
such net or seine as aforesaid, or shall take or catch crabs in the
waters of the Potomac River within the jurisdiction of the
State of Maryland or Virginia without having first paid the
tax and obtained the license provided for under the laws of
the State in which such net is set or crabs are taken, he shall
be deemed guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section,
and shall, for each such violation, be fined not less than ten
dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and shall forfeit to
the State such net or other fishing devices used in said viola-
tions.

It shall be unlawful for any person to use a haul seine or
pound net head or pocket having a smaller mesh than two
inches, stretched measure, for the purpose of catching food fish.
Any net having a funnel mouth, round mouth, or square mouth,
with head above water, shall be construed as a pound net. Any
person or persons using a net in violation of this provision shall
be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars for each offense, and such net or nets shall be for-
feited to the State.

SEC. 7. Concurrent jurisdiction for punishment of offenses
in Potomac River. All offenses committed against the provi-
sions of this act by persons not citizens and residents of either
State may be punished by any of the magistrates or courts of
either State having criminal jurisdiction; all offenses com-
mitted against the provisions of this act by citizens of either