744 PISH AND FISHERIES—POTOMAC. [ART. 39.

June, in each year, without the permission of the owner or occu-
pier of such fishing landing; and any person so offending shall be
subject to the forfeiture and fine prescribed by the preceding
section.

F. G. L., (1860,) art. 41, sec. 15. 1860, ch. 104, sec. 3.

39. The owners or occupiers of the regularly hauled fishing
landings are authorized to render any sheriff or other officer
assistance necessary to arrest any person violating any of the
provisions of the two preceding sections; and the said officer
shall seize all boats, seines and fixtures in possession of such
person, and carry the person so arrested before some justice of
the peace, to be dealt with as herein directed; and the said
officer may summons the posse comitatus to aid him in making
arrest or seizure authorized by this section; and may for that
purpose also press, at the expense of the State, any steamboat or
other vessel, belonging to any citizen of this State, not actually
engaged in carrying the United States mail.

1882, ch 440. I

40. It shall not be lawful for any person to catch or destroy,
or to attempt to catch or destroy, any fish in the waters of the
Potomac river or tributaries, above the place commonly known
as the " Little Falls " of the Potomac, during the month of May,
except shad and herring, which may be caught at any time.

Ibid.

41. It shall not be lawful for any person to catch or destroy,
dr to attempt to catch or destroy, fish in the waters of the
Potomac river and tributaries above the said "Little Falls" of
the Potomac at any time by means of sledging, or by trot or out
lines set with live bait; nor shall it be lawful to catch or destroy,
or attempt to catch or destroy, any black bass or salmon in any
manner, between the first day of May and the first day of June
in each year; nor shall it be lawful for any person to kill fish
with poison or drug, or by the explosion of powder or other
substance, at any time.

Ibid.

42. The owner or owners of all dams (except the canal dams)
now erected or hereafter to be erected in or across the Potomac