ART. 41.] FISH AND FISHERIES.

Bay, lying within bounds of Cecil, Kent and Harford
counties, or any of its tributaries within said counties,

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unless with seines usually called market seines, which
are used for catching summer fish; nor shall any per-
son, except resident citizens of this state, or the owners
or tenants of lands or shores bordering on any of said
waters so lying within said counties, fish by gill net,
hauling seine, or any device whatever, within the
aforesaid waters, at any period of the year, unless by

Market seines.

permission of the owners or tenants of the lands or
shores aforesaid; and any person violating and offend-
ing against either provision of this section shall forfeit
the boats, nets and seine, or other fixtures used by such
offender at the time of so violating the same.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

SINEPUXENT BAY, &c.

1868, c. 442 enacts the following :

When permis-
sion of owners
necessary.

Penalty.

3. If any person or persons shall haul or fish with
any seine or seines in Sinepuxent Bay or its tributaries,
or in any of the bays or their tributaries on the eastern
side of Worcester county, above what is known as
George's Island Landing, on Parker's Bay, he or they

1868, c 412, s 1.
Hauling or fish-
ing with seines
above George's
Island Land-
ing

shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dol-
lars for the first offence, and two hundred dollars for
every subsequent offence, with all costs and charges ac-
cruing in the prosecution of such offender or offenders.

Pine.

4. No gill net, set-seine or other contrivance for
catching fish (otherwise than a hauling seine) in any
of the waters aforesaid shall exceed in length or extent
seventy-five fathoms, and any person or persons so

Ibid s. 2.
Length of
seine.

offending shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars,
and for every subsequent offence, shall forfeit and
pay two hundred dollars, together with all costs
and charges in the prosecution of such offender or
offenders.

Fine

5. The offences named or contemplated by this act
may be heard by any justice of the peace of this

Ibid s 3.
Any justice of
the peace to
issue warrant.