1020 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

1904, art. 39, sec. 32. 1888, art. 39, sec. 32. 1888, ch. 332, sec. 4.

32. Any person who shall drive down any stakes in the Patuxent
river, or its tributaries, for the purpose of setting a trap or pound shall
draw up all of the stakes within ten days after he removes the net
from such stakes.

Ibid. sec. 34. 1888, art. 39, sec. 34. 1888, ch. 332, sec. a

33. Any justice of the peace for any of the counties bordering 011
the Patuxent river shall, upon application of any bona fide resident
of his respective county, administer such oath and issue such permit
as prescribed in sections 30 and 31, and he shall charge twenty-five
cents as his fee.

Ibid. sec. 35. 1888, art. 39, sec. 35. 1888, ch. 332, sec. 7.

34. Any person violating any of the provisions of any of the five
preceding sections shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not
less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, to be collected

as other fines; one-half to be paid to the informer, the other half to
be paid to the county commissioners of the county in which such

offense is committed, for the benefit of the public schools of said county.

1908, ch. 293. 1910, ch. 208 (p. 139).

35. It shall not be lawful for any person, persons, or corporation
to set, place, construct or use any nets (known as pound nets) in the
waters of the Patuxent river between the head of the river and Holland
Point wharf less than five hundred yards apart, as measured by the
channel of the river, and any person, or persons, or corporation violat-
ing the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined not
more than one hundred dollars for each and every offence.

Potomac.

1904, art 39, sec. 36. 1888, art. 39, sec. 36. 1860, art. 41, sec. 12. 1854, ch. 172,
sec. 1. 1860, ch. 104, sec. 1. 1870, ch. 205. 1856, ch. 130.

36. The fishing season for shad and herring in the waters of the
Potomac river shall begin the fifteenth clay of March and end the
first day of June in each year.

Ibid. sec. 37. 1888, art. 39, sec. 37. 1860, art. 41, sec. 13. 1854, ch. 172, sec. 2.

37. If any person shall haul, drift, anchor or stake in the Potomac
river, or any of its tributaries in the State, any gill nets or seine of
any description (except those commonly called market seines for sum-
mer and winter fish, and sturgeon nets with eight inch meshes), 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 offense not less than fifty nor more than one hundred

dollars.