1442 ARTICLE 39.

which he resides in relation to the taking and catching of fish; provided,
nothing in this section shall apply to any person using a net solely for the
purpose of supplying his own table. Such oyster inspector or other author-
ized officer shall thereupon grant license to use such net or other device, and
state in such license the name or names of the person or persons who shall
use the same, the place at which it is to he located or used, the season for
which said license is granted, which season shall begin on the first day of
February in any year and end on the thirty-first day of January of the year
following and the amount of tax as prescribed by the laws of the State
where issued.

Any citizen of either Maryland or Virginia desiring to take or catch
crabs from the waters of the Potomac River by any method, or any person
desiring to engage in the business of buying crabs for picking or canning
or shipping the same, shall pay to the oyster inspector or other designated
official in the district in which he resides such specific license tax as is pre-
scribed by the State of which he is a resident.

If any person shall use or set, or cause to be used or set, any such net
or seine as aforesaid, or shall take or catch crabs in the waters of the
Potomac River within the jurisdiction of the State of Maryland or Vir-
ginia without having first paid the tax and obtained the license provided
for under the laws of the State in which such net is set or crabs are taken,
he shall be deemed guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section,
and shall, for each such violation, be fined not less than ten dollars nor
more than two hundred dollars, and shall forfeit to the State such net or
other fishing devices used in said violations.

It shall be unlawful for any person to use a haul seine or pound net
head or pocket having a smaller mesh than two inches, stretched measure,
for the purpose of catching food fish. Any net having a funnel mouth,
round mouth, or square mouth, with head above water, shall be construed
as a pound net. Any person or persons using a net in violation of this
provision, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hun-
dred dollars for each offense, and such net or nets shall be forfeited to
the State.

1924, ch. 289.

63. The use of any beam trawl, trammell net, troll net or any similar
device is absolutely prohibited in the waters of the Potomac river or any
of its tributaries. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions
of this Section shall on conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace
of any County of this State most accessible, forfeit said net or nets, or
device, together with all boats, vessels and tackle used in the violation of
this Section and fined a sum of not less than fifty dollars and not more
than one hundred dollars, or to be subject to both fine and forfeiture, in
the discretion of the Justice of the Peace trying the case. Provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this section shall be construed, in any manner, to
prohibit the catching of fish through the method of seine hauling and
pound net or gill net fishing as heretofore permitted, by license or other-
wise, under the laws of the State of Maryland.