1142 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

1688, art. 39, sec. 12. 1860, art. 41, sec. 11. 1841, ch. 326, sec. 3.

12. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously put any
stake, log, stone or other obstruction in the usual haul of any
floating battery, he shall pay a fine of twenty dollars.

Patapsco.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1874, ch. 79, sec. 1. 1876, ch. 204. 1880, ch. 76.

13. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to
take, capture or destroy fish by seines, drag-nets, set-nets,
dip-nets, stir-nets, fish-baskets or fish-pots, eel-weirs, brush
or fascine-nets, or any means or contrivances whatever of the
nature of a seine, which are known to destroy or capture fish,
or to destroy or capture them by shooting or striking through
the ice, or otherwise than by hook and line, commonly known
as angling, in the Patapsco river, above the point where the
old turnpike road from Baltimore to Washington crosses the
said river.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1874, ch. 79, sec. 4.

14. Any person offending against the provisions of the pre-
ceding section shall be liable, upon conviction thereof by sum-
mary process before any justice of the peace of this State in
and for the county where the act is committed, to a penalty of
not less than ten nor more than thirty dollars, one-third to the
informer, one-third to the constable making the arrest, and the
balance to the treasurer of the board of county school commis-
sioners for school purposes; provided, that any person so
offending, on conviction thereof as aforesaid, who shall refuse
or fail to pay said fine imposed and the cost thereon, shall be
imprisoned in the jail of the county in which the act shall be
committed for not less than ten nor more than twenty days.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1874, ch. 79, sec. 2.

15. The owners of all dams on said river ore required to
make and keep or cause to be made and kept in repair proper
fish-ladders and have them placed on said dams, so as to afford
to the fish in said river free course up and down said river.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1874, ch. 79, sec. 3.

16. If the owners of said dams fail to comply with the pro-
visions of the preceding section they shall be liable, upon con-
viction thereof by summary process before any justice of the
peace of this State in the county in which said dam or dams is
or are situated, to a penalty of not less than fifty nor more than