ART. 39.] FISH AND FISHERIES—FISH COMMISSIONERS. 755

the premises of any person, under permission of the owners
thereof, brook trout to be kept and used for artificial propagation
only, and for no other purpose.

1874, ch. 253, sec. 6.

78. Tiolation of any of the provisions of the five preceding
sections may be prosecuted by any citizen of the county in which
said violation shall take place, before any justice of the peace or
circuit court for said county; funds paid as penalties shall be
equally divided between the informer and the public school com-
missioners of the county, for the benefit of the public schools
in the district where the offence is committed.

Commissioners of Fisheries.

1874, ch. 150.

79 The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
senate, shall biennially appoint two competent persons, who
shall continue in office for two years from the time of their
appointment, and until their successors are appointed, who shall
be known as commissioners of fisheries of Maryland, one of
whom shall come from the eastern and one from the western
shore of the State.

Ibid.

80. It shall be the duty of said commissioners to inspect all
the waters of this State, with a view of stocking the same with
such food fishes as in their judgment shall be most advantageous,
and with such object they shall communicate with the commis-
sioner general of fisheries of the United States, and with the com-
missioners of fisheries appointed by the different States, and report
the result of their inspection to the governor of this State, as soon
as practicable; and they shall examine into the feasibility of cut-
ting a channel around the Great Falls of the Potomac to admit
the passage of fish from tide water into the upper Potomac; and
they shall also inquire into the expediency of constructing fish-
ways or fish-ladders to admit the passage of fish over dams or other
obstructions in the upper Potomac, or elsewhere in the State.