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66 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 41.
POTOMAC.
1870, c. 205 repeals and re-enacts with amendments sections 12 and 14 as follows:
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1870, c. 205.
Fishing season
for shad and
herring lim-
ited.
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SEC. 12. The fishing season for shad and herring in
the waters of the Potomac river shall begin the fifteenth
day of March and end the first day of June in each
year.
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When seines
not to be
hauled without
permission of
shore owner.
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14. No person shall haul, drift or fish any seine or
gill net within the water bounds, or berths of any
regularly hauled fishing landing, nor opposite to any
part of the shore of the owner or occupier of any such
landing, within hauling distance from such shore, be-
tween the fifteenth day of March and the first day of
June, in each year, without the permission of the owner
or occupier of such fishing landing, and any person so
offending shall be subject to the forfeiture and fine pre-
scribed by the next preceding section.
Approved April 4, 1870.
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1870, c. 205 further enacts the following sub-sections to follow section 20:
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1870, c. 205, s 2.
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20. Sub-Sec. 1. No person shall fish in the Potomac
river, or its tributaries, for shad and herring, during
the season hereinbefore prescribed, with seines, gill
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No person to
fish without
license.
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nets, or nets of any kind, without first having obtained
a license therefor as hereinafter provided.
Sub-Sec. 2. All persons entitled under the laws of
this state to fish for shad and herring in the Potomac
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How fishing 11-
cenee to be ob-
tained
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river and its tributaries, shall first obtain a license
therefor, by application to the clerk of the circuit court
for the county bordering on said river, opposite to,
or in which he may desire to fish, which license shall
have effect for and during the period hereinbefore
fixed ; and the comptroller of the treasury shall cause
to be printed and delivered to the several clerks of
the circuit courts for the counties bordering on said
river, the requisite number of such blank licenses, and
take their receipts for the same as for other licenses
furnished ; and said clerks shall, on the first Monday
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