ART. 39.] FISH AND FISHERIES—PATUXENT. 741

one-half of an inch square; or during the rest of the year with
any seine or net with meshes of a less size than two inches square;

and no person shall empty any seine except in water twelve inches

deep; and any person violating this section shall be subject to the

fine and forfeiture provided in section 20.

1874, ch. 80.

24. No vessel, float, raft, or boat of any description, unless

compelled to do so by stress of weather or other unavoidable acci-
dent, shall be anchored or stayed in the berth or haul of any regu-
larly hauled fishing shore in the Patuxent river, and remain thus

anchored for the space of haif an hour, when the weather will
permit the departure of such vessel, raft, float, or boat, after being

warned to depart therefrom by the owner or occupant of said
fishery.

Ibid

25. Any person violating the preceding section shall pay to

owner of said fishery a fine of twenty dollars for each offence;
and every hour the vessel, float, or boat, continues after the half
hour mentioned in the preceding section, shall be considered a new
and separate offence.

Ibid.

26. The captain or owner 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 and stayed as above
mentioned, shall also be liable to be seized and sold to pay any
fines imposed under the preceding section.

Ibid.

27. If any such vessel, float or boat shall be willingly, wantonly

and maliciously, or from gross negligence, sailed through any
seine extended in any of said fisheries, the skipper, captain or
other person commanding such vessel, float or boat, shall pay to
the owner or holder of such seine not less than twenty nor more
than one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the justice of the
peace trying the case.