614 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

of Maryland, inconsistent with the provisions of 78 to 86, with the
exception only of Chapter 427 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the session of 1896, are hereby repealed; provided
that nothing in the said Sections shall apply to Frederick, Baltimore,
Howard, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, Wicomico, Charles,
Talbot, Worcester, Calvert or Somerset Counties or to Baltimore City.

Chesapeake Bay.

1904, art. 39, sec. 101. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 90. 1912, ch. 690.

110.*+ Any person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in the
business of taking or catching of fish for sale, by the use of pound nets,
fykes, haul seines or other contrivances, except hook and line, within
the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, below Pool's Island, and within the
jurisdictional limits of the State of Maryland, shall first obtain by
application to the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county wherein
he may reside, or the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore
City, a license therefor, and such license shall have effect from the
first day of February, in the year in which it may have been obtained,
to the first day of February, inclusive, next succeeding; and provided
further, that such license shall not authorize the taking or catching of
fish, except with hook and line, within the jurisdictional limits of any
county or counties of this State.

Ibid. sec. 102. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 91. 1914, ch. 815.

111. Each and every license to catch or take fish for sale under the
provisions of Section 111§ shall state the name, age and residence of
the person to whom the same is granted, and every applicant for such
license shall pay to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County, or
the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City, when such
license shall be granted and before the delivery of same, the sum of
live dollars for the first license, and the sum of one dollar for each and
every additional net, haul seine or other contrivance to take or catch
fish for sale in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, and the sum of two
dollars for each license to take or catch fish for sale in the tributaries
of the Chesapeake Bay; the Clerk to receive the sum of twenty-five
cents for each and every license so issued, as a fee for issuing the same,
including the administering of the oath when required; and the said
amount of license received for issuing same shall be paid over by the
Clerk into the Treasury of the State of Maryland, to be credited to
the "Oyster Fund"; provided, that the provisions of this section shall

*The act of 1914, chapter 556, provides that for a period of ten years, it shall
be unlawful to catch, kill, take or have in possession any sturgeon in the waters
of the Chesapeake Bay or tributaries.

+ 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.

§This number is as given in the act; section 110 was probably intended.