ART. 14. ] FISH AND FISHERIES.

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37. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons whatsoever
to haul in the waters of the Patuxent river, between Sheriden's
Point and Point Patience, any seine of greater length than sixty
fathoms, at any time between the first day of June and the first day
of October following

1878, c 363, sub-
sec 3
Prohibitions.

38. Any person violating the provisions of this last-mentioned
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof before a justice of the peace for Calvert county, or
before the Circuit Court of Calvert county, shall be fined a sum not
less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, one half thereof
to be paid to the informer and the other half thereof to the county
commissioners of said county.

Id sub-sec 4.
Fine.

39, No person shall stake down any seine or net across the
Patuxent river for the purpose of taking shad or herring; nor
shall any person whip, thrash, or beat the waters of the Patuxent
river with poles or any other instruments for the purpose of driving
fish into any seine or net; nor shall any person in fishing in the said

1874, c 313
Stake nets and
beating waters
prohibited

river, between the fifth day of March and the fifteenth day of May,
use any seine or net with meshes of less size than one and three-
eighths of an inch square, or during the rest of the year with any
seine or net with meshes of a less size than two inches square, and
no person shall empty any seine except in water twelve inches deep;
and any person violating this section shall be subject to the fine and
forfeitures provided in the twenty-second section of this article.

Regulations in
regard to seines

40. No vessel, float, raft, or boat of any description, unless com-
pelled to do so by stress of weather or other unavoidable accident,
shall be anchored or stayed in the berth or haul of any regularly
hauled fishing shore in the Patuxent river, and remain thus an-
chored for the space of half an hour, when the weather will permit
the departure of such vessel, raft, float, or boat, after being warned
to depart therefrom by the owner or occupant of said fishery.

1874, c 80 A.
Vessels, floats,
etc, not to be
anchored in
haul of fishing
shore.

41- Any person violating the preceding section shall pay to the
owner of said fishery, a fine of twenty dollars for each offence, and
every hour the vessel, float, or boat continues after the half hour
mentioned in the preceding section, shall be considered a new and
separate offence.

Id B.
Penalty

42. The captain or owner of the vessel, float, or boat referred to
in the preceding two sections, shall be liable to pay said fine, and
the vessel, float, or boat so anchored and stayed as above mentioned,
shall also be liable to be seized and sold to pay any fines imposed
under the preceding sections.

Id C
Captain and
vessel liable.

4. 3. If any such vessel, float, or boat shall be willingly, wantonly
and maliciously or from gross negligence sailed through any seine
extended in any of said fisheries, the skipper, captain, or other per-
son commanding such vessel, float, or boat, shall pay to the owner
or holder of such seine not less than twenty, nor more than one
hundred dollars, at the discretion of the justice of the peace trying
the case.

Id D
Fine for wan-
tonly sailing
through seines