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282 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. XXXIX
any person failing to procure such a license and violating this provision
of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic-
tion 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
unlawful 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
Comptroller of the Treasury for the use of a purse or buck net with a
mesh less than three inches, and it shall be unlawful to fish with purse
or buck nets within any of the waters of this State for the purpose of
catching menhaden or any other kind of fish for the manufacture there-
from of oil or guano, or for any other use than food; and any person
or persons violating this provision shall upon conviction be subject to
a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, each day's illegal fishing to
constitute a separate offense. 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 and Cecil Conn-
ties. It shall be unlawful to use a purse net within one mile of the
shores of Harford County, exclusive of Poole's Island.
See notes to section 3.
Patuxent.
1904, art. 39, sec. 29. 1888, art. 39. sec. 29. 188S, ch. 332, sec. 1. 1914, ch. 462,
sec. 29. 1918. ch. 406, 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 net of any kind, or any device of am
kind or description now known or hereafter to be invented for trapping
or catching fish in any part of the Patuxent River from Queen Anne
Bridge on said river down said river to a straight line drawn across the
mouth of said river from Drum Point Light House in Calvert County
to Hog Point in St. Mary's County nearer than 500 yards in every
direction from any other net or device above mentioned or of the total
length of any net or device above mentioned of more than 175 yards in
length, including the leaders or hedges or wings thereof, below a straight
line from Truman's Point Wharf across said river to a point on the
shore directly opposite said wharf, or of a total length of more than
fifty yards in said river above said straight line from Truman's Point
Wharf or at a greater 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; provided, however, that this Sec-
,tion shall not apply to catching fish with hook and line, floating gill
nets, purse nets or seines; and provided further, that nothing in this
Section contained shall prevent anyone from capturing and destroying
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