FISH AND FISHERIES. 1429

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, Har-
ford and 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.
See notes to sec. 3.

An. Code, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1880, ch. 260.

5. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of section 2,
upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county in
which said section has been violated, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars, one-
half of which shall go to the informer; and any hauling seine or hauling
seines, drag-net or drag-nets, and the boat or boats and material used in
fishing the same are hereby declared to be forfeited; and the justice be-
fore whom said conviction and condemnation shall be had is authorized
and directed to have said fishing apparatus sold by the sheriff or con-
stable making said arrest to the highest bidder, and the proceeds, together
with half the fine, after deducting the cost, shall be paid to the county
commissioners of the county in which said offense shall be committed for
the use of the school fund of said county.

An. Code, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 4. 1888, sec. 4. 1880, ch. 260.

6. Any person, on conviction, failing to pay the fine as prescribed in
the preceding section, shall be imprisoned in the county jail of the county
in which said offense shall be committed; provided, however, that any
one so offending shall, upon conviction before any justice of the peace of
the county in which said offense shall be committed, have the right of
appeal to the circuit court for the county in which said offense shall be
committed, under the same restrictions that govern appeals from the de-
cisions of justices of the peace.

An. Code, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 5. 1888, sec. 5. 1843, ch. 275, sec. 1.

7. No person shall place in the head waters of the Chesapeake bay or
in the Sassafras, Elk, Bohemia, North East or Susquehanna rivers or in
any of their tributaries any stakes, piles or other thing for the purpose of
attaching seines or nets thereto, with the view of taking shad or fish of
any description; this not to apply to any portion of said bay below Pool's
island.

1924, ch. 236.

8. Nothing contained in Section 7 of this Article shall prohibit the
use or anchoring of drift nets in the waters therein mentioned.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec. 6. 1843, ch. 275, secs. 3, 4.

9. Any person violating the preceding section shall forfeit the seine
or nets attached as aforesaid and the boats and materials used for fishing
the same and shall also for each offense pay a fine of fifty dollars.