ART. 14. ] FISH AND FISHERIES.

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18. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously place any ob-
struction or hindrance in the way of laying out or hauling in any
seine in any lawful fishery upon the Potomac river or its tributaries,
or in any other manner or way prevent a bond fide owner of a shore,
or his agent or tenant, from using or fishing such shore, he shall, on
conviction, forfeit and pay not less than fifty dollars, nor more than
five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not less than one month,
nor more than one year; this and the preceding section not to apply
to any obstruction or hindrance by unavoidable accident or stress
of weather.

Id s 18
1852, c 123, s. 1.
same.

19. Any owner or occupier of a fishery on the Potomac may
cause and permit all vessels employed by him in carrying on his
business to be anchored or moored opposite his shore, but not so as
to interfere with the rights of the owners or occupiers of adjoining
shores in laying out their seines.

Id s 19
1846, c 87
Owners may
permit vessels to
lie opposite
shores

2 0. No person shall fish in the Potomac river or its tributaries
for shad and hen ing during the season herein prescribed with
seines, gill-nets, or nets of any kind, without having first obtained
a license therefor, as hereinafter provided; and no person shall be
entitled to obtain such license for fishing with a hauling seine who
is not the owner or occupier of some fishing-shore on said river, nor

1872, c 292
Sub-sec 1
license.

shall any be entitled to obtain such license for fishing with gill-nets,
except bond fide citizens of the counties bordering on said river.

Who entitled to
license

21, All persons entitled under the laws of this State to fish for
shad and herring in the Potomac 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, winch 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 in June in each year, return to the said comptroller
a list and account of such licenses issued by them.

1870, c 205
Sub-sec 2
How fishing
license to be
obtained

22. Every license to fish, as aforesaid, shall state the name and
residence of the person to whom the same is granted, the descrip-
tion of the fishing fix to be used, whether hauling seine or gill net;
the number of square fathoms of seine or net when rigged, and that
he is the bond fide owner of the same; and every person to whom
such license may be granted shall first pay to the clerk, where

Id Sub-sec 8
What license to
state

granted, three cents for each square fathom of seine, and one cent
for each square fathom of gill net to be used; but no license shall
be granted to any one applying for the same, unless such ap-
plicant shall make oath before the clerk authorized to issue the

Cost.

same, or before some justice of the peace of the same county,
upon whose certificate the clerk may issue said license, that the

Oath.