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into nets, seines, fish-baskets, or other seines, or to erect any
fish-pot, or fish with any drag-net, fish-basket or other snare, or
in any other manner, except with the gig, trot-lines, dip-net or
the angling rod.

2. Any person or persons offending against the provisions of
the last preceding section, shall forfeit and pay for each offence
the sum of thirty dollars, to be recovered in the name of the
County Commissioners of the county in which the offence takes
place, before a justice of the peace, one-half to the informer, the
other half to the school fund of the county, and in such action
the informer shall be a competent witness.

3. Every justice of the peace shall annually account with the
County Commissioners of his county, at their meeting to make
the county levy, for all fines received under this act, under the
penalty of fifty dollars for each fine by him imposed or received.

In force from February 11, 1864.

article XLIV.

hospital - Maryland.

Chapter 129 adds the following sections:

SEC. 1. The President, Vice President, Visitors and Physicians
of the Maryland Hospital shall, before the first day of May,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, take and subscribe, before
some person qualified by law to administer oaths, the following
oath or affirmation: I do swear or affirm that I have not borne
arms against the United States, nor given any aid, countenance,
sympathy or support to those engaged in armed hostility to the
government of the United States, and that I will bear true faith,
and allegiance to the United States, and support the constitu-
tion, laws and government thereof, any law or ordinance of
any State to the contrary notwithstanding; the said president,
vice president, visitors and physicians shall file the said oath so
taken and subscribed by them, properly attested, with the clerk