ART. 39.] FISH AND FISHERIES—POTOMAC. 747

1872, ch 292.

50. No person shall fish in the Potomac river or its tribu-
taries for shad and herring during the season prescribed in
section 36, with seines, gill nets or nets of any kind, without
having first obtained a license therefor, as hereinafter provided;
and no person shall be entitled to obtain such license for fishing
with a hauling seine who is not the owner or occupier of some
fishing shore on said river; nor shall any persons be entitled
to obtain such license for fishing with gill nets, except bona fide

citizens of the counties bordering on said river.

1870, ch. 205.

51. All persons entitled under the preceding section to fish
for shad and herring in the Potomac river, and its tributaries,
shall first obtain a license therefor, by application to the clerk of
the circuit court for the county bordering on said river, opposite
to, or in which he may desire to fish, which license shall have
effect for and during the period fixed in section 36; and the
comptroller of the treasury shall cause to be printed and deliv-
ered to the several clerks of the circuit courts for the counties
bordering on said river, the requisite number of such blank
licenses, and take their receipts for the same, as for other licenses
furnished ; and said clerks shall, on the first Monday in June in
each year, return to the said comptroller a list and account of
such licenses issued by them.

Ibid.

52. Every license to fish, as aforesaid, shall state the name and
residence of the person to whom the same is granted, the descrip-
tion of the fishing fix to be used, whether hauling seine or gill-
net ; the number of square fathoms of seine or net when rigged,
and that he is the bona fide owner of the same; and every person
to whom such license may be granted, shall first pay to the clerk
where granted, three cents for each square fathom of seine, and
one cent for each square fathom of gill-net to be used; but no
license shall be granted to any one applying for the same unless
such applicant shall make oath before the clerk authorized to
issue the same, or before some justice of the peace of the same
county, upon whose certificate the clerk may issue said license,