122	FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 41.
	creek and Weaverton dam, with poles, sticks or other things, for the purpose of driving the fish 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.
Penalty.	23. 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 commission- ers 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 wit- ness.
Justices to account for fines.	24. Every justice of the peace shall annually ac- count 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. POCOMOKE. 1862, c. 171 enacts the following :
1802, c. 171. Fish in Poco- moke protect- ed above Por- ter's bridge.	25. It shall not be lawful for any person to throw or place into the waters of the Pocomoke river, for the purpose of taking or destroying fish therein, any lime, coculus indicus, otherwise called Indian or Indian cockle, or any other poisonous weed or sub- stance, whether the same is mixed with any other substance or not ; every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- tion thereof, before any justice of the peace, in the name of the state, such person shall be punished by
Penalty.	fine in the discretion of the justice, of not less than five, nor more than twenty-five dollars, to be col-