ART. 39.] FISH AND FISHERIES—HEAD OF BAY. 735

P. G. L , (1860,) art 41, sec 2. 1854, ch. 310 1868, ch 421. 1876, ch 252.
1878, ch. 276. 1880, ch. 260

2. No person shall, from the tenth day of June to the first day
of October in each year, fish with hauling seine or drag-net of
any kind, within the Chesapeake bay, or any of its tributaries
lying northward of the following line, viz: Beginning at Still
pond, in Kent county, and drawn westward to Lego's point, in
Harford county.

1880, ch 260.

3. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of
the preceding section, upon conviction thereof before any justice

of the peace of the county in which said section has been
violated, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars, one-half of which shall
go to the informer; and any hauling seine or hauling seines,
drag-net or drag-nets, and the boat or boats and material used in
fishing the same are hereby declared to be forfeited; and the
justice before whom said conviction and condemnation shall be
had, is authorized and directed to have said fishing apparatus
sold by the sheriff or constable making said arrest, to the highest
bidder, and the proceeds, together with half the fine, after
deducting the cost, shall be paid to the county commissioners of
the county in which said offence shall be committed, for the use
of the school fund of said county.

Ibid.

4. Any person, on conviction, failing to pay the fine as
prescribed in the preceding section, shall be imprisoned in the

county jail of the county in which said offence shall be com-
mitted ; provided, however, that any one so offending shall, upon
conviction before any justice of the peace of the county in which
said offence shall be committed, have the right of appeal to the
circuit court for the county in which said offence shall be
committed, under the same restrictions that govern appeals from
the decisions of justices of the peace.

P. G L., (1860,) art 41, sec 3. 1843, ch. 275, sec 1.

5. No person shall place in the head waters of the Chesapeake
bay, or in the Sassafras, Elk, Bohemia, North East or Susque-
hanna rivers, or in any of their tributaries, any stakes, piles or