1436 ARTICLE 39.

Potomac.

An. Code, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 36. 1888, sec. 36. 1854, ch. 172, sec. 1. 1860, ch. 104, sec. 1.

1870, ch. 205. 1856, ch. 130.

37. The fishing season for shad and herring in the waters of the Poto-
mac river shall begin the fifteenth day of March and end the first day of
June in each year.

An. Code, sec. 37. 1904, sec. 37. 1888, sec. 37. 1854, ch. 172, sec. 2.

38. If any person shall haul, drift, anchor or stake in the Potomac
river, or any of its tributaries in the State, any gill nets or seine of any
description (except those commonly called market seines for summer and
winter fish, and sturgeon nets with eight inch meshes), at any time not
within the period fixed by the preceding section, he shall forfeit all the
boats, seines and fixtures then in his possession and be fined for each
offense not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.

An. Code, sec. 38. 1904, sec. 38. 1888. sec. 38. 1854, ch. 172, sec. 3. 1860, ch. 104, sec. 2.

1870, ch. 205.

39. No person shall haul, drift or fish any seine or gill net within the
water bounds or berths of any regularly hauled fishing landing, nor opposite
to any part of the shore of the owner or occupier of any such landing, within
hauling distance from such shore, between the fifteenth day of March and
the first day of June in each year, without the permission of the owner or
occupier of such fishing landing; and any person so offending shall be
subject to the forfeiture and fine prescribed by the preceding section.

An. Code, sec. 39. 1904, sec. 39. 1888, sec. 39. 1860, ch. 104, sec. 3.

40. The owners or occupiers of the regularly hauled fishing landings
are authorized to render any sheriff or other officer assistance necessary to
arrest any person violating any of the provisions of the two preceding sec-
tions; and the said officer shall seize all boats, seines and fixtures in posses-
sion of such person, and carry the person so arrested before some justice of
the peace, to be dealt with as herein directed; and the said officer may sum-
mons the posse comitatus to aid him in making arrest or seizure authorized
by this section; and may for that purpose also press, at the expense of the
State, any steamboat or other vessel belonging to any citizen of this State,
not actually engaged in carrying the United States mail.
Cf. art. 72, secs. 31 and 32, and art. 99, sec. 9.

An. Code, sec. 40. 1904, sec. 40. 1888, sec. 40. 1882, ch. 440. 1896, ch. 427. 1904, ch. 269.

41. It shall not be lawful for any person to catch or kill any black bass,
green bass, rock bass, pike or pickerel or wall-eyed pike (commonly known
as salmon), between the fifteenth day of April and the first day of June of
each year; nor catch or kill any of said species of fish at any other time
during the year, save only with a rod, hook and line or dip-net. The words