FISH AND FISHERIES. 1451

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons in any manner to throw
or cause to be thrown any slab of timber or other substance across or into
any stream, under a penalty of two dollars ($2) for each fish so caught,
taken or killed.

An. Code, sec. 85. 1904, sec. 85. 1902, ch. 358, sec. 78C. 1906, ch. 161. 1910, ch. 255 (p. 136).

96. No person shall, in this State, sell or expose for sale, or buy any
white perch, yellow perch, rock or striped bass, tailor or pike under size
mentioned in section 94, or any sturgeon under weight as limited in said
section, where the fish so offered for sale, or bought, contain over ten per
cent, of fish under size or weight, whether such fish so exposed for sale,
sold or bought shall have been caught, trapped or in any other manner
taken or killed in the State of Maryland or in any other State or county,
under penalty for exposing for sale, selling or buying of such fish as pro-
vided in section 94, for catching said undersized fish, but nothing in this
section contained shall be so construed as to prevent any of the fish com-
missioners 1 of this State, in pursuance of their capacity as fish culturist,
or any other person or corportion which shall first obtain a certificate in
writing from the state game warden to the effect that such persons or
corporations are engaged in the scientific culture or propagation only; and
to obtain said certificate said persons or corporations must file with the
state game warden an application and affidavit to the truth and bona fides
thereof, made by the person or officers of the corporation requesting the
same, and taken before any officer competent to administer an oath in
this State, and said affidavit and application shall be retained and kept
on file by said state game warden.

As to the authority of the game warden as to fish unlawfully had in one's posses-
sion, etc., see art. 99, sec. 66, et seq.
Cf. art. 72, sec. 9, and art. 99, sec. 27, and notes.

An. Code, sec. 86. 1904, sec. 81. 1902, ch. 358, sec. 78E. 1906, ch. 161. 1914, ch. 366.

1916, ch. 396.

97. All acts and parts of acts, and all sections and parts of sections
of the code, both of general and local laws, and all amendments of and
additions and supplements thereto, now in force in the State of Maryland,
inconsistent with the provisions of sections 86 to 97, with the exception
only of Chapter 427 of the acts of the general assembly of Maryland,
passed at the session of 1896, are hereby repealed.

An. Code, sec. 87. 1910, ch. 286 (p. 139).

98. It shall be lawful to take cat fish and eels in any of the waters of
the State of Maryland in any manner during the months of September,
October, November and December in each year.

An. Code, sec. 88. 1910, ch. 255, sec. 4 (p. 136).

99. Any person violating any of sections 87, 94, 96, or 112 shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined the
sum of twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each

1 Superseded by conservation commissioner—see art. 19A.