608 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

1908, ch. 740. 1914, ch. 828.

3. No person shall at any time Be allowed to fish with purse nets
at any point in the Chesapeake Bay above or north of a line drawn east
from Robin's Point on the Western Shore to Handy's Point on the East-
ern Shore of Maryland.

1908, ch. 740. 1914, ch. 828.

4.* No person shall fish with purse or buck 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 then only from June 15th to Novem-
ber 1st of each year, and the applicant shall pay the sum of twenty-five
dollars ($25.00) for each and every purse or buck net owned and
operated by him, whereupon the said Comptroller shall issue to such
applicant a license or licenses to operate such purse or buck nets, and
all moneys arising from said license shall be paid into the State Treas-
ury for the maintenance of the State Oyster Navy, and any person
failing to procure such a license and violating the provision of this
Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
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. It shall be unlaw-
ful to use a purse or buck net with a mesh less than three inches for
the catching of food fish, and no license shall be issued by the Comp-
troller of the Treasury for the use of a purse or buck net with a mesh
less than three inches, and unless the steam or sail boats used in con-
nection with purse or buck nets have been owned by bona fide residents
of the State of Maryland twelve months before the issuing of said
license. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no one shall
be permitted to use purse or buck nets in Chester River or any of the
tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay within the limits of Baltimore,
Queen Anne's, Anne Arundel, Harford or Cecil Counties. It shall be
unlawful to use a purse net within one mile of the shores of Harford
County, exclusive of Poole's Island.

Patuxent.

1904, art. 39, sec. 29. 1888, art. 39, sec. 29. 1888, ch. 332, sec. 1.
1914, ch. 462, sec. 29.

29. It shall not be lawful for any person, persons, corporation or
corporations to set, place, construct or use any pound net, fyke net,
trap net, sunken net or staked not + of any kind, or any device of any
kind or description now known or hereafter to be invented for trap-
ping or catching fish in any part of the Patuxent River from Queen

*The act of 1914, chapter 279, requires non-residents of Maryland to take out
licenses for nets used in fishing in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean within the
jurisdiction of Maryland in Worcester County.

+ Evidently a typographical error in the act.