FISH AND FISHERIES 481
Penalty.

1029, ch 471, sec 56

57. Any person found guilty of violating any section or part of Sec-
tions 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 Baltimore 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
the State of Virginia to take fish, oysters or crabs from the Potomac River
after complying with the requirements of the laws of the State of which he
is a citizen for the taking of fish, oysters or crabs from the waters of such
State; and any citizen of either State who takes fish, oysters or crabs from
the Potomac River without having complied with the requirements of the
law of his State as to the taking of fish, oysters or crabs in its own waters
shall be considered guilty of violating the laws of the State of which he is
a citizen, and shall be prosecuted according to such laws. It shall not be
lawful for any person to take or catch fish, oysters or crabs in any manner
whatever in the waters of the Potomac River unless he be a citizen of
Maryland or of Virginia, and shall have been a resident of the State of
which he is a citizen for twelve months immediately preceding. Any such
non-resident violating this section shall be subject to a fine of five hundred
dollars; furthermore, any vessel, with its equipment and cargo, or any net
or other appliances used in violating this section, shall be deemed forfeited
to the State.

An Code, 1924, sec 62 1912, ch 4

59. Any citizen of Maryland or of Virginia desiring to fish for market
or profit with a pound net, fyke net, gill net, haul seine, sturgeon net, skirt
net, weir or other device, in the waters of Potomac River, shall first apply
to the regularly constituted officer as determined by the laws or regulations
of the State of which he is resident, and in the district or locality in which
said applicant resides, except that the applicant for license to fish with the
fixed device shall apply to the officer of the district or locality in which
such fixed device is proposed to be located for a license, and state on oath

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
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