1460 ARTICLE 39.

An. Code, sec. 113. 1904, sec. 104. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 93.

131. The comptroller of the treasury shall cause to be printed and
delivered to the clerks of the circuit courts for the several counties the
requisite number of such blank licenses, and take receipt for the same, and
for other licenses furnished; and said clerks shall on the first Monday in
July and December, of each year, return to the comptroller a list and
account of such licenses issued by them and at the end of each year shall
return all unused blank licenses to him, and shall pay over to the comptroller
all the moneys received by them for such license, which amount the said
comptroller shall place to the credit of the " Oyster Fund,"

An. Code, sec. 114. 1904, sec. 105. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 94. 1908, ch. 313.

132. It shall not be lawful for any person in taking fish for sale by the
use of pound nets, fyke nets or other contrivances, now known or hereafter
invented, to set such pound nets, fyke nets or other contrivance, now known
or hereafter invented, in waters of the Chesapeake bay, within the juris-
dictional limits of the State of Maryland and below Pool's island, in the
Chesapeake bay, at a greater length than one-third the distance across the
bay from low water mark on either side, and any person violating this
section shall, upon conviction thereof before some justice of the peace of
any county of this State most accessible, be fined the sum of not less than
twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or shall forfeit said net or nets,
together with the boats and tackles used in the violation of sections 127 to
137, inclusive, of this article, or to be subject to both fine and forfeiture,
in the discretion of the justice of the peace trying the same; provided, that
the party feeling aggrieved shall have the right of appeal as in other, cases
tried before justices of the peace ; and provided further, that in case of
appeal the person appealing shall give to the State of Maryland a good and
sufficient bond, covering double the amount of the fine or forfeiture, in case
of forfeit, so as to secure to the State the amount of fine and forfeiture, in
case he does, not prosecute his appeal with effect.

An. Code, sec. 114A. 1914, ch. 462, sec. 114B.

133. It shall not be lawful for any person, persons, corporation or cor-
porations to set, place, construct or use any pound net, fyke net, sunken net
or staked net of any kind, or any device of any kind or description now
known or hereafter to be invented for trapping or catching fish in that part
of the Chesapeake Bay which lies between a straight line drawn from Drum
Point Light House in Calvert County to Hog Point in St. Mary's County
and a straight line drawn from Cove Point Light House in Calvert County
to Cedar Point Light House in St. Mary's County, nearer than 500 yards
in every direction from any net or device above mentioned, or of a total
length of any net or device above mentioned of more than 175 yards length
including the leaders or hedges or wings thereof, or at a greater distance
than one-fourth the distance across the waters above mentioned from low
water mark on either side. And be it further provided that whenever the
word net or the word device is mentioned in this Section it shall be held to
include the leader or leaders or hedge or hedges or wing or wings of said net