FISH AND FISHERIES. 1441

An. Code, sec. 59. 1904, sec. 59. 1888, sec. 60. 1852, ch. 291. 1865, ch. 135.

60. It shall not be lawful for any person, other than the owner, or by
the permission of the owner, to take or carry away from any shore of the
Potomac river, below Fort Washington, which has been or may be used as
a fishery, any sand, gravel or other matter that may form part of said shore,
to the amount of twenty bushels or more; and if any person shall feloniously
steal, take and carry away from any shore of the Potomac river, below Fort
Washington, which has been or may be used as a fishery, any sand, gravel
or other matter that may form part of said shore, to the amount of twenty
bushels or more such person shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and on
conviction thereof in the circuit court for the county in which such larceny
was committed, shall pay to the owner the full value thereof, and be sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than five years.

An. Code, sec. 59A. 1912, ch. 4.

61. It shall be lawful for any citizen of the State of Maryland or of
the State of Virginia to take fish, oysters or crabs from the Potomac River
after complying with the requirements of the laws of the State of which he
is a citizen for the taking of fish, oysters or crabs from the waters of such
State; and any citizen of either State who takes fish, oysters or crabs from
the Potomac River without having complied with the requirements of the
law of his State as to the taking of fish, oysters or crabs in its own waters
shall be considered guilty of violating the laws, of the State of which he is
a citizen, and shall be prosecuted according to such laws. It shall not be
lawful for any person to take or catch fish, oysters or crabs in any manner
whatever in the waters of the Potomac River unless he be a citizen of Mary-
land or of Virginia, and shall have been a resident of the State of which he
is a citizen for twelve months immediately preceding. Any such non-resi-
dent violating this section shall be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars;
furthermore, any vessel, with its equipment and cargo, or any net or other
appliances used in violating this section, shall be deemed forfeited to the
State.

This section is a duplicate of art. 72, sec. 71.

An. Code, sec. 59B. 1912, ch. 4.

62. Any citizen of Maryland or of Virginia desiring to fish for market
or profit with a pound net, fyke net, gill net, haul seine, sturgeon net, skirt
net, weir or other device, in the waters of Potomac River, shall first
apply to the regularly constituted officer as determined by the laws or regu-
lations of the State of which he is resident, and in the district or locality
in which said applicant resides, except that the applicant for license to fish
with the fixed device shall apply to the officer of the district or locality in
which such fixed device is proposed to be located for a license, and state on
oath the true name or names of the person or persons applying for said li-
cense ; that they are and have been for twelve months next preceding resi-
dents of the State in which such application has been made; the place at
which the net, seine, fyke, weir or other device is to be fished, and that dur-
ing the period of the license he will not violate any of the laws of the State in
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