736 FISH AND FISHERIES—HEAD OP BAY. [ART. 39.

other thing for the purpose of attaching seines or nets thereto,
with the view of taking shad or fish of any description; this not
to apply to any portion of said bay below Pool's island.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 41, sec. 5. 1843, ch. 275, secs. 3-4.

6. Any person violating the preceding section shall forfeit the
seine or nets attached as aforesaid, and the boats and materials
used for fishing the same, and shall also for each offence pay a
fine of fifty dollars.

Ibid. sec. 6 1820, ch. 199, sec. 1. 1841, ch 326, secs. 1, 6.

71 No vessel, float of timber or plank, or of any other materials,
or of any description or kind whatsoever, nor any boat of any
description, unless compelled to do so by stress of weather or
other unavoidable accident, shall be anchored or stayed in any
fishery in the Susquehanna river, or at the head of the Chesa-
peake bay, at any time between the first day of April and the
twentieth day of May in any year, and remain thus anchored for
the space of half an hour, when the weather will admit of the
departure of such vessel, float or boat, after being ordered to
depart therefrom by the owner or occupier of such fishery; the
usual haul of a seine from any floating battery anchored between
Spesutia Island and Point Concord in the Chesapeake Bay, for
the purpose of fishing, shall be to all intents and purposes con-
sidered as a fishery within the meaning of this section.

Ibid, sec 7. 1820, ch. 199, sec. 1. 1841, ch 326, sec. 2.

8. Any person violating the preceding section shall pay a fine
of twenty dollars for each offence; and every hour the vessel or
other obstruction continues after the half hour mentioned in the
preceding section, shall be considered a new and separate offence.

Ibid, sec 8 1820, ch. 199, sec. 1. 1843, ch 234.

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