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FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 14.
ally hauled over by any shore fishery, and any person violating this

Penalty for
hauling from
float through
fishery

section shall for each offence pay a fine of twenty-five dollars, and
for every hour such float or other device shall remain thus anchored
or located after notice shall be given by the owner or occupier of
such shore fishery requiring him to remove, he shall pay an addi-
tional fine of twenty-five dollars.

Id s 11
1841, c 326, s 3
Penalty for
placing obstruc-
tions in fishery

12, If any person shall wilfully and maliciously put any stake,
log, stone or other obstruction in the usual haul of any floating bat-
tery, he shall pay a fine of twenty dollars.

POTOMAC.

1870, c 205
Fishing season
in Potomac

13. 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

Art 41, s 13
1854, c 172, s 2
Penalty for
fishing out of
season

14. If any person shall haul, drift, anchor, or stake in the Poto-
mac liver, or any of its tributaries in this State, any gill-nets or
seine of any description (except those commonly called market
seines for summer and winter fish, and sturgeon nets with eight
inches mesh), at any time not within the period fixed by the pre-
ceding section, he shall forfeit all the boats, seines, and fixtures then
in his, possession, and be fined for each offence not less than fifty
nor more than one hundred dollars.

1870, c 205
Fishing in haul
of shore fishery

15. 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, between
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 for-

Penalty.

feiture and fine prescribed by the last preceding section.

Art 41, s 15
1860, c 104, s 3
Arrest.

16. The owner or occupiers of the regularly hauled fishing land-
ings are authorized to render any sheriff or other officer assistance
necessary to arrest any person violating any of the provisions of the
two preceding sections; and the said officer shall seize all boats,
seines, and fixtures in possession of such person, and carry the per-
son so arrested before some justice of the peace, to be dealt with as

Posse may be
summoned

herein directed; and the said officer may summon the posse comi-
tatus to aid him in making arrest or seizure authorized by this ar-
ticle, and may for that purpose also press, at the expense of the
State, any steamboat or other vessel belonging to any citizen of this
State not actually engaged in carrying the United Slates mail.

Id s 17
1845, c 148, s 2
Penalty for
obstructions to
fisheries.

17. If any person shall, during the months mentioned in the
preceding sections, place any boat, vessel, or other obstruction or
hindrance in the way of laying out or hauling any seine used in any
lawful fishery on said river or its tributaries, or otherwise obstruct
or hinder such laying out or hauling, and he or his agents shall fail
or refuse forthwith to remove such obstruction or hindrance, on
being required to do so by the person so obstructed or hindered, he
shall pay a fine not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars.