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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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 63. 1924, ch. 289.

60. 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 64. 1912, ch. 4.

61. All offenses committed against the provisions of sections 58-59
and 61-64 by persons not citizens and residents of either State may be
punished by any of the magistrates or courts of either State having crimi-
nal jurisdiction; all offenses committed against the provisions of said sec-
tions by citizens of either State, shall be punished by any of the magis-
trates or Courts' of the State of which he is a citizen having criminal
jurisdiction.

The authorities of either State shall have the right to examine into the
right of any person taking fish, oysters or crabs in the Potomac River, or
having same in his possession; and any person taking fish, oysters or crabs
in the Potomac River or having same in his possession shall exhibit his
authority for so doing whenever required by the police or other legal au-
thority of either State. The legal authorities of either State shall have
the right to arrest any such offender, and, if necessary in order to arrest,
shall pursue such offender beyond the boundary line of either State upon