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FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 14.

pay said fine imposed, and the cost thereon, such person or persons
shall be imprisoned in the county jail where the act shall be com-
mitted, for not less than ten, nor more than twenty days.

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Appeal

58. Any person or persons who may feel himself or themselves
aggrieved by any judgment, rendered by a justice of the peace,
under the provisions of this act, shall have the right to appeal to
the Circuit Court of the county, where the act was committed, upon
the conditions and subject to the regulations, now provided by the
general law regulating appeals from justices of the peace, but execu-
tion of the judgment of the justice of the peace shall not be stayed,

Bond

unless the party appealing, shall give bond to the State for double
the amount of fine imposed, with security approved by the justice
rendering the judgment, with condition to prosecute his appeal with
effect, or to pay the fine imposed with all costs.

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PRESERVATION OF FISH.

1874, c 253, s 1.
Penalty for
taking brook
trout out of
season

59. It shall not be lawful for any person to take, catch, or kill
any speckled brook trout, or any speckled river trout, save only with
a hook and line, or to have any such trout in his or her possession,
except during the months of April, May, June, July, and the first
fifteen days in the month of August, under a penalty of five dollars
for each trout so caught or had in his or her possession; but this

To whom not to
apply

section shall not prevent any person or corporation from catching
trout in any manner or at any time, in waters owned by them, or
upon their premises to stock other waters.

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Penalty for
taking brook
trout with
seines, etc.

60. It shall not be lawful for any person within the State of
Maryland to take or catch any brook trout at any time, in any of
the waters of the State, by means of any fish-basket, seine or seines,
net or nets, trap or traps, under a penalty of five dollars for each
and every fish so taken.

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Penalty for
placing lime,
etc, in waters.

61. No person shall place in any fresh-water stream, lake or
pond, without the consent, of the owner, or in the waters and estua-
ries with the rivers debouching into them, any lime or other delete-
rious substance, with the intent thereby to poison or catch fish,
under a penalty of one hundred dollars.

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Penalty for fish-
ing in private
ponds prepared
for cultivating
fish

62. Whenever any person who owns, controls, or erects an arti-
ficial pond upon his own land, or land of which he is in legal posses-
sion, and shall put therein any fish or the eggs or spawn of fish, for
the purpose of breeding and cultivating fish, and shall give notice
thereof, either in one or more newspapers of the county, or by
written or printed handbills put up in public places near said pond,
any person who shall thereafter enter upon such premises for the
purpose of fishing, or shall catch in said pond or ponds and take
therefrom any fish, shall be guilty of a trespass, and, in addition
thereto, shall be liable to a penalty of five dollars for the first fish,
ten dollars for the second, and twenty dollars for the third and each
subsequent offence; provided, that this act shall not prevent the