740 FISH AND FISHERIES—PATUXENT. [ART. 39.

1874, ch. 219.

20. Any person violating the provisions of the two preceding-
sections shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one
hundred dollars, in the discretion of the justice of the peace
before whom the case is heard; which amount shall be appropri-
ated to the public school fund of the county wherein such judg-
ment is rendered; and for the payment of the amount of fine so
adjudged, any boat, seine, weir or other fishing tackle used by
any person in violation of the provisions of the two preceding
sections, shall be seized and held as security upon complaint
against such offending party.

1884, ch. 503.

21. It shall not be lawful for any persons, except bona fide
residents of St. Mary's, Anne Arundel, Charles, Calvert and
Prince George's counties, to haul in the waters of the Patux-
ent river, between Sheridan'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, ch. 363.

22. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding sec-
tion shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof before a justice of the peace for Calvert county, or before
the circuit court for 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.

P. G. L., (1880,) art 41, sec. 23. 1838, ch. 128. 1874, ch. 813. 1884, ch. 303.

23. No person shall stake down any seine or net entirely across
the Patuxent river for the purpose of taking shad or herring; nor
shall any person whip, thresh or beat the waters of the Patuxent
river with poles or any other instrument, for the purpose of.
driving any fish within any seine or net; nor shall any per-
sons, except bona fide residents of Prince George's, Charles, St.
Mary's, Anne Arundel and Calvert counties, in fishing in the-
said river, between the fifth day of March and the fifteenth day
of May, use any seine or net with meshes of less than one and