ART. 39.] PISH AND FISHERIES—PATUXENT, POTOMAC. 743

1888, ch. 332, sec. 6.

34. Any justice of the peace for any of the counties border-
ing on the Patuxent river shall, upon application of any bona
fide resident of his respective county, administer such oath and
issue such permit as prescribed in sections 30 and 31, and he
shall charge twenty-five cents as his fee.

Ibid. sec. 7.

35. Any person violating any of the provisions of any of the
six preceding sections shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine
of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars,
to be collected as other fines; one-half to be paid to the informer,
the other half to be paid to the county commissioners of the
county in which such offence is committed, for the benefit of the
public schools of said county.

Potomac.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 41, sec. 12. 1854, ch. 172, sec. 1. 1856, ch. 130. 1860, ch.
104, sec. 1. 1870, ch. 205.

36. The fishing season for shad and herring in the waters of
the Potomac river shall begin the fifteenth day of March and end
the first day of June, in each year.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1854, ch. 172, sec. 2.

37. If any person shall haul, drift, anchor or stake in the
Potomac river, or any of its tributaries in this State, any gill nets
or seine of any description (except those commonly called market
seines for summer and winter fish, and sturgeon nets with eight
inches mesh), at any time not within the period fixed by the pre-
ceding section, he shall forfeit all the boats, seines and fixtures
then in his possession, and be fined for each offence not less than
fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1854, ch. 172, sec. 3 1860, ch 104, sec. 2. 1870, ch. 205.

38. No person shall haul, drift or fish any seine or gill net
within the water bounds, or berths of any regularly hauled fishing
landing, nor opposite to any part of the shore of the owner or
occupier of any such landing, within hauling distance from such
shore, between the fifteenth day of March and the first day of