616 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

ing the leaders or hedges or wings thereof, or at a greater distance
than one-fourth the distance across the waters above mentioned from
low water mark on either side. And be it further provided that when-
ever the word net or the word device is mentioned in this Section
it shall be held to include the leader or leaders or hedge or hedges or
wing or wings of said net or device. And any person or persons, cor-
poration or corporations violating any of the provisions of this Section
shall, upon conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace of any
County of this State most accessible be fined the sum of not less than
one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars, and shall also for-
feit said net or nets together with the boats and tackle used in violation
of this Section, providing that the party feeling aggrieved shall have
the right of appeal is* in other cases tried before Justices of the Peace,
and provided further that in case of appeal, the person appealing shall
give to the State of Maryland a good and sufficient bond, covering
double the amount of fine and forfeiture, so as to secure to the State
the amount of the fine and forfeiture, in case he does not prosecute
his appeal with effect, and be it further provided, that any person, per-
sons, corporation or corporations, violating any of the provisions of
this Section shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 116, 117 and
119 of this Article so far as the same are applicable hereto.

1904, art. 39, sec. 106. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 95. 1912, ch. 699.
115. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of sections 110
to 118, inclusive, of this article, by the use of any pound net, fyke net,
haul seine or other contrivances now known or hereafter invented, in
the taking or catching of fish, shall, on conviction thereof before some
justice of the peace of any county of this State most accessible, forfeit
said pound net, fyke net, haul seine or other contrivances, now used
or hereafter invented for taking fish, together with all boats, vessels and
tackle used in the violation of any of said sections, or fined a sum not
less than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, or to be
subject to both fine and forfeiture, in the discretion of the justice of.
the peace trying the case; provided the person feeling aggrieved shall
have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court for said county, under the
provisions of section 114.

*Evidently a typographical error in the act.