1458 ARTICLE 39.

on the treasurer for the payment of said sum on requisition of said com-
missioners in such amounts as they may require, approved by the governor
out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and said
fish commissioners shall annually render to the comptroller of the State
for the inspection of the general assembly, strict and accurate itemized
accounts of all moneys received by them from the State, and of the dis-
bursement or expenditure of the same with vouchers therefor; and the .
comptroller at each session of the general assembly shall make a report
thereof showing whether said fish commissioners have complied with the
law.

Chesapeake Bay.

An. Code, sec. 110. 1904, sec. 101. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 90. 1912, ch. 690.

127.1 Any person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in the business
of taking or catching of fish for sale, by the use of pound nets, fykes, haul
seines or other contrivances, except hook and line, within the waters of the
Chesapeake Bay, below Pool's Island, and within the jurisdictional limits
of the State of Maryland, shall first obtain by application to the clerk of the
Circuit Court for the county wherein he may reside, or the clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City, a license therefor, and such
license shall have effect from the first day of February, in the year in which
it may have been obtained, to the first day of February, inclusive, next
succeeding; and provided further, that such license shall not authorize the
taking or catching of fish, except with hook and line, within the jurisdic-
tional limits of any county or counties of this State.

An. Code, sec. 111. 1904, sec. 102. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 91. 1914, ch. 815.

128. Each and every license to catch or take fish for sale under the
provisions of Section 1282 shall state the name, age and residence of the
person to whom the same is granted, and every applicant for such license
shall pay to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County, or the Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City, when such license shall be
granted and before the delivery of same, the sum of five dollars for the first
license, and the sum of one dollar for each and every additional net, haul
seine or other contrivance to take or catch fish for sale in the waters of the
Chesapeake Bay, and the sura of two dollars for each license to take or
catch fish for sale in the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay; the Clerk to
receive the sum of twenty-five cents for each and every license so issued, as
a fee for issuing the same, including the administering of the oath when
required; and the said amount of license received for issuing same shall
be paid over by the Clerk into the Treasury of the State of Maryland, to
be credited to the " Oyster Fund "; provided, that the provisions of this

1 Act, 1914, ch. 556, provides that for a period of ten years, it shall be unlawful to
catch, kill, take or have in possession any sturgeon in waters of Chesapeake Bay or
tributaries.

Act, 1914, ch. 279, requires non-residents of Maryland to take out licenses for nets
used in fishing in waters of Atlantic Ocean within jurisdiction of Maryland in Worcester
county.

2 This number is as given in the act; sec. 127 was probably intended.