490 ARTICLE 39.

1931, ch. 442, sec. 2.

77A. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this Article shall,
for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be
unconstitutional and invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or
invalidate the remainder thereof, hut shall be confined in its operation to
the clause, sentence, paragraph or section thereof so found unconstitutional
and invalid.

1029, ch. 471, sec. 71.

78. Violations and Penalty. Any person violating the two preceding
sections, or who shall alter, loan or transfer a license to him issued, as
herein provided, and any person while fishing under a license issued to
another person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof before a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, shall be
sentenced to pay a fine of $10 for each offense and the costs, and such
person's license shall be void and shall be surrendered to such justice of
the peace, and by such justice immediately sent to the State Conservation
Commission; and in default of payment of such fine and costs, such
person shall stand committed to the county or city jail, as the case may
be, for a period of one day for each dollar of said fine and costs which
shall be unpaid. All fines recovered under this Article shall be immedi-
ately forwarded by the justice of the peace to whom they are paid, to the
Comptroller of the State or to the Conservation Commission, together
with a statement of the cause for which said money shall have been
collected; the cost of such statement is hereby fixed at fifty cents and here-
by made a part of the costs of prosecution; and said Comptroller shall
credit the moneys so received to the Conservation Fund.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 72.

79. Sizes of Game or Fresh Water Fish. No person shall catch or
in any manner take or kill, sell, offer to buy or sell, or expose for sale, or
have in possession any fish caught in non-tidal waters of this State of any
size less than herein provided: Bass, large or small mouth, 10 inches;
Pike or Pickerel, 14 inches; Trout, brook, brown or rainbow of any species
of the salmon and trout family (except Squeteague), 7 inches, measuring
in each case from the tip of the nose to the end of the caudal fin or tail,
and any other fish mentioned in Section 51 of a size or weight prohibited
in said section.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 73.

80. Penalty. Any person found guilty of violating any section or part
of Sections 71 to 79, inclusive, of this Article, sub-title "Non-Tidal
Waters, " unless the penalty is provided for in this 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;