ART. 39] COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES——CHESAPEAKE BAT. 309

peake bay, or any of the tributaries thereof, within the limits of
the State of Maryland, for the purpose of taking or catching
fish thereby.

1892, ch. 78.

78 B. Any person violating the provisions of the foregoing
section, upon indictment and conviction for the same in any cir-
cuit court for the county, or Criminal Court of Baltimore wherein
the offense may have been committed, shall be fined not less than
three hundred dollars and the cost of prosecution; and upon
failure to pay the same shall be confined in the house of correc-
tion for not less than one year.

Ibid.

78 C. All fines collected under the two preceding sections
shall be paid one-half to the informer and the other half into the
treasury of the State of Maryland.

Commissioners of Fisheries.

1890, ch. 189.

89. The further sum of ten thousand dollars per annum, or
so much thereof as may in the opinion of the Governor be nec-
essary, is appropriated for the purpose of enabling said commis-
sioners to carry out the provisions of sections eighty, eighty-one
and eighty-seven, and the comptroller shall issue his warrant on
the treasurer for the payment of said sum on requisition of said
commissioners in such amounts as they may require, approved by
the Governor out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated; and said fish commissioners shall annually render
to the comptroller of the State for the inspection of the General
Assembly, strict and accurate itemized accounts of all moneys
received by them from the State, and of the disbursement or
expenditure of the same with vouchers therefor; and the comp-
troller at each session of the General Assembly shall make a
report thereof showing whether said fish commissioners have
complied with the law.

Chesapeake Bay.

1896. ch. 441.

90. Any resident of this State, desiring to engage in the
business of taking or catching of fish for sale, by the use of pound