1150 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

having first obtained a license therefor, as hereinafter provided;
and no person shall be entitled to obtain such license for fish-
ing 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.

1888, art. 39, sec. 51. 1870, ch. 205, sub-sec. 2.

50. 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 sai'd 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 delivered 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. sec. 52. 1870, ch. 205, sub-sec. 3.

51. Every license to fish, as aforesaid, shall state the name
and residence of the person to whom the same is granted, the
description 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, that the number of square
fathoms of the seine or net to be used, and the other facts to
be inserted in said license, are strictly true, and that he will
obey and comply with all the provisions of the laws of this
State regulating fishing in the Potomac river; and for each
and every outfit, whether of hauling seine or gill net, a license
shall be required.