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the county wherein he desires to fish and that such license is issued to him
to fish in the waters opposite his shore. "

1929, ch. 471, sec. 54.

55. Cost of Licenses. Each and every license to take fish for sale under
the provisions of the preceding sections shall state the name, age and resi-
dence of the person to whom said license is granted and every applicant for
such license shall pay to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of 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 following license fees:
For each and every purse or buck net, the sum of $25. 00; for pound nets
operated in Chesapeake Bay, the sum of $5. 00 for the first net and $1. 00 for
each additional net; for pound nets operated in the tributaries of the Chesa-
peake Bay, the sum of $2. 00 for all nets; for each haul seine, the sum of
$5. 00 for the first net and $2. 00 for each additional net, and the Clerk is
hereby authorized to issue one license for any number of nets licensed by
any one person, and in addition to the above license fees shall receive the
sum of 25 cents for each and every license so issued as a fee for issuing
same; and the said Clerks shall on the first of each month render an account
of such licenses issued by them during the preceding month and remit to
the Comptroller all money received by him for issuing said licenses, to be
credited by the Comptroller to the Conservation Fund.
See secs. 76, 81 and 82.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 55.

56. License Blanks. The Comptroller of the Treasury shall cause to
be printed and delivered to the Clerk of the Circuit Courts for the several
counties the requisite number of such blank licenses, and take receipt for
same; and require them to be accounted for as provided in Section 55.

Penalty.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 56.

57. Any person found guilty of violating any section or part of Sections
24 to 56, inclusive, of this Article, sub-title "Tidal Waters, " unless the
penalty is provided for in the section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof before a justice of the peace qualified to try same,
or by any court upon appeal, shall be fined the sum of not less than $25 nor
more than $100, and shall stand committed to the county jail or the Balti-
more City Jail until such fine and costs are paid; and all boats, nets, seines
or other equipment used for the purpose of violating any of the above
sections shall be declared forfeited, and the fines and forfeitures shall be
disposed of as provided for in Section 9.

Concurrent Law on the Potomac River. ¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 61. 1912, ch. 4.

58. It shall be lawful for any citizen of the State of Maryland or of

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 471 of acts of 1929 provided that secs. 61-67 of art. 39 of the Code
(1924 Ed. ) be embodied in this article.