1434 ARTICLE 39.

An. Code, sec. 29. 1904, sec. 29. 1888, sec. 29. 1888, ch. 332, sec. 1. 1914, ch. 462, sec. 29.

1918, ch. 406, sec. 29.

30. It shall not be lawful for any person, persons, corporation or cor-
porations 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 any kind or de-
scription 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 de-
vice 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 whenever the word net or the word device is men-
tioned 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, how-
ever, that this Section 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 destroy-
ing in any manner any German carp, or leather carp, or any carp of any
description whatever, of any size.

An. Code, sec. 30. 1904, sec. 30. 1888, sec. 30. 1888, ch. 332, sec. 2. 1914, ch. 462, sec. 30.

31. It shall be unlawful to use or haul any seine or gill net or purse
net in any part of said river with a smaller mesh than that prescribed in
Section 24 of this Article, or at any other time than prescribed by said Sec-
tion 24 or in any creek or tributary of said river less than two hundred
feet wide at its mouth.

An. Code, sec. 31. 1904, sec. 31. 1888, sec. 31. 1888, ch. 332, sec. 3. 1914, ch. 462, sec. 31.

32. It shall not be lawful for any person to catch or take fish in the
Patuxent River or any of its tributaries with purse seines, except for food
purposes.

An. Code, sec. 32. 1904, sec. 32. 1888, sec. 32. 1888, ch. 332, sec. 4. 1914, ch. 462, sec. 32.

33. Any person wishing to catch or take fish in the Patuxent River
with purse seines for food purposes shall make application to a Justice of
the Peace in the County in which he resides for a permit and shall make
oath before said Justice of the Peace that he is a resident of said County
and does not intend to catch fish for the purpose of manufacturing into
fertilizer or to put upon the land in a raw state, and all person or persons
making a false oath shall be deemed guilty of perjury and subject to the
penalty provided in case of perjury.