738 FISH AND FISHERIES—PATAPSCO. [ART. 39.

P. G L , (1860). art. 41, sec. 11. 1841, ch 326, sec. 3.

12. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously put any stake,
log, stone or other obstruction in the usual haul of any floating
battery, he shall pay a fine of twenty dollars.

Patapsco.

1874, ch. 79. 1876, ch. 204. 1880, ch. 76.

13. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to take,
capture or destroy fish by seines, drag-nets, set-nets, dip-nets, stir-
nets, fish-baskets or fish-pots, eel-weirs, brush or fascine-nets, or
any means or contrivances whatever of the nature of a seine,
which are known to destroy or capture fish, or to destroy or cap-
ture them by shooting or striking through the ice, or otherwise
than by hook and line, commonly known as angling, in the
Patapsco river, above the point where the old turnpike road from
Baltimore to Washington crosses the said river.

1874, ch. 79

14. Any person offending against the provisions of the pre-
ceding section shall be liable, upon conviction thereof, by sum-
mary process before any justice of the peace of this State, in
and for the county where the act is committed, to a penalty of
not less than ten nor more than thirty dollars, one-third to the
informer, one-third to the constable making the arrest, and the
balance to the treasurer of the board of county school commis-
sioners for school purposes; provided, that any person so of-
ending, on conviction thereof as aforesaid, who shall refuse or
fail to pay said fine imposed and the cost thereon, shall be im-
prisoned in the jail of the county in which the act shall' be
committed for not less than ten nor more than twenty days.

Ibid.

15. The owners of all dams on said river are required to make
and keep, or cause to be made and kept, in repair proper fish-
ladders, and have them placed on said dams, so as to afford to the
fish in said river free course up and down said river.

Ibid.

16. If the owners of said dams fail to comply with the pro-
visions of the preceding section they shall be liable, upon convic-