1140 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

1888, art. 39, sec. 5. 1860, art. 41, sec. 3. 1843, ch. 275, sec. 1.

5. No person shall place in the head waters of the Chesa-
peake bay or in the Sassafras, Elk, Bohemia, North East or
Susquehanna rivers or in any of their tributaries any stakes,
piles or other thing for the purpose of attaching seines or
nets thereto, with the view of taking shad or fish of any
description; this not to apply to any portion of said bay
below Pool's island.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1860, art. 41, sec. 5. 1843, ch. 275, secs. 3, 4.

6. Any person violating the preceding section shall forfeit
the seine or nets attached as aforesaid and the boats and
materials used for fishing the some and shall also for each
offense pay a fine of fifty dollars.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1860, art. 41, sec. 6 1820, ch. 199, sec. 1. 1841, ch 326,
secs. 1, 6. 1900, ch. 611.

7. No vessel, float of timber or plank, or of any other
materials, or of any description or kind whatever, nor any
boat of any description, unless compelled to do so by stress of
weather or other unavoidable accident, shall be anchored or
stayed in any fishery in the Susquehanna river, or at the head
of the Chesapeake bay, at any time between the 1st day of
April and the 20th day of May, in any year, and remain thus
anchored for the period of half an hour, when the weather
will admit of the departure of such vessel or boat, after being
ordered to depart therefrom by the owner or occupier of such
fishery; the usual haul of a seine from any floating battery
anchored between Spesutia island and Lapidum in the Susque-
hanna river, for the purpose of fishing, shall be to all intents
and purposes considered as a fishery within the meaning of
this section.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1860, art. 41, sec. 7. 1820, ch. 199, sec. 1. 1841, ch. 326, sec. 2.

8. Any person violating the preceding section shall pay a
fine of twenty dollars for each offense; and every hour the
vessel or other obstruction continues after the half hour men-
tioned in the preceding section shall be considered a new and
separate offense.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1860, art. 41, sec. 8. 1820, ch. 199, sec. 1.
1843, ch. 234.

9. The skipper, the captain, owner or occupier of the vessel,
float or boat referred to in the two preceding sections shall be