FISH AND FISHERIES. 1431

An. Code, sec. 13. 1904, sec. 11. 1888, sec. 11. 1820, ch. 99, sec. 3. 1880, ch. 354.

14. No float or other device for fishing shall be anchored or located
at any place so as to interfere with any shore fishery now used as such,
or which may be hereafter established; nor shall any seine be hauled from
such floats, or other device, over the ground usually hauled over by any
shore fishery; nor shall any float haul over the grounds usually hauled
over by another float, which has cleared its haul and been located in the
same position two or more fishing seasons, unless the said float shall aban-
don for one spring the locality previously occupied; and any person vio-
lating this section shall, for each offense, pay a fine of not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and for every hour
that such float or other device shall remain anchored or located after
notice shall be given by the owner or occupant of such shore, float or fish-
ery, requiring him to remove, he shall pay an additional fine of not less
than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.

An. Code, sec. 14. 1904, sec. 12. 1888, sec. 12. 1841, ch. 326, sec. 3.

15. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously put any stake, log,
stone or other obstruction in the usual haul of any floating battery, he shall
pay a fine of twenty dollars.

Patapsco.

An. Code, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 15. 1888, sec. 15. 1874, ch. 79, sec. 2.

16. The owners of all dams on the Patapsco river are required to
make and keep or cause to be made and kept in repair proper fish-ladders
and have them placed on said dams, so as to afford to the fish in said
river free course up and down said river.

An. Code, sec. 16. 1904, sec. 16. 1888, sec. 16. 1874, ch. 79, sec. 3.

17. If the owners of said dams fail to comply with the provisions of
the preceding section they shall be liable, upon conviction thereof by sum-
mary process before any justice of the peace of this State in the county in
which said dam or dams is or are situated, to a penalty of not less than
fifty nor more than one hundred dollars; five dollars to the informer, and
the balance to the county commissioners of such county for school purposes.

An. Code, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 17. 1888, sec. 17. 1874, ch. 79, sec. 5.

18. Any person who may feel himself aggrieved by any judgment ren-
dered by a justice of the peace under the two preceding sections shall have
the right to appeal to the circuit court for the county where the act was
committed upon the conditions and regulations provided by law for ap-
peals from judgments of justices of the peace; but execution shall not be
stayed, unless the party appealing shall give bond to the State in double
the amount of the fine imposed, with security approved by the justice ren-
dering the judgment, with condition to prosecute his appeal with effect,
or to pay the fine imposed with all costs.