1014 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

the following line, viz: beginning at Still Pond in Kent county and
drawn westward to Lego's point in Harford county.

1908, ch. 740.

3. No person shall at any time be allowed to fish with purse nets
at any point in the Chesapeake bay north of a line drawn east from
Sandy Point, on the Western Shore, due east to Love Point, on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland.

1908, ch. 740.

4. No person shall fish with purse nets within the State of Maryland
south of the line drawn from the line aforesaid due east to the Eastern
Shore without first obtaining a license so to do from the comptroller of
the treasury, and the applicant shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars
for each and every purse net owned and operated by him, whereupon
the said comptroller shall issue to such applicants a license or licenses
to operate such purse net or nets, and all monies arising from said
licenses shall be paid into the state treasury for the maintenance of the
state oyster navy, and any person failing to procure such license and
violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to the fines and
penalties imposed by section 5 of this article and to the penalties
imposed by the statutes of Maryland for failure to procure licenses
wherever required by law.

1904, art. 39, sec. 3. 1888, art. 39, sec. 3. 1880, ch. 260.

5. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of section
2, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the
county in which said section has been violated, shall pay a fine of fifty
dollars, one-half of which shall go to the informer; and any hauling
seine or hauling seines, drag-net or drag-nets, and the boat or boats and
material used in fishing the same are hereby declared to be forfeited;
and the justice before whom said conviction and condemnation shall be
had is authorized and directed to have said fishing apparatus sold by the
sheriff or constable making said arrest to the highest bidder, and the
proceeds, together with half the fine, after deducting the cost, shall be
paid to the county commissioners of the county in which said offense
shall be committed for the use of the school fund of said county.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1888, art. 39, sec. 4. 1880, ch. 260.

6. Any person, on conviction, failing to pay the fine as prescribed
in the preceding section, shall be imprisoned in the county jail of the
county in which said offense shall be committed; provided, however,
that any one so offending shall, upon conviction before any justice of
the peace of the county in which said offense shall be committed, have
the right of appeal to the circuit court for the county in which said
offense shall be committed, under the same restrictions that govern
appeals from the decisions of justices of the peace.