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the first fish, ten dollars for the second, -and twenty dollars for
the third and each subsequent offense.
Sollers v Sollers, 77 Md. 149.

1888. art 39, sec. 77. 1874, ch. 253, sec. 5.

76. Any person or company engaged in the increase of
brook trout by artificial process (known as fish culture) may
take from his or their pond or ponds in any way, and cause to
be transported, and may sell any .brook trout and the spawn of
brook trout at any time; and common carriers may transport
them, and dealers may sell them on condition that the pack-
ages thereof so transported are accompanied by a certificate
from a justice of the peace, certifying that such trout are sent
by the owners or agents of parties so engaged in fish culture ;
and such person or company may take, in any way and at any
time, upon the premises of any person, under permission of
the owners thereof, brook trout to be kept and used for arti-
ficial propagation only, and for no other purpose.

Ibid. sec. 78. 1874, ch. 253, see. 6.

77. Violation 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 commissioners of the county, for the benefit of the
public schools in the district where the offense is committed.

1902, ch. 358, sec. 78 A.

78. No person shall catch or in any manner take or kill in
any waters of this State, above a point where the tide ebbs
and flows, any black bass, pickerel or pike perch, otherwise
known as wall-eyed pike, and California salmon, between the
first day of April and the fifteenth day of June, both inclusive,
in each and every year, in any manner whatsoever, nor at any
time, save only with rod, line and single hook, baited with
natural bait, or tied with the artificial fly, or with a spoon or
spinner, each equipped with a single hook, or of any size less
than eight inches, measuring in the case of each fish from the
tip of the nose to the end of the caudal fin or tail, under a pen-
alty of five dollars ($5.00) for each fish so unlawfully caught,
taken or killed.

Ibid. sec. 78 B.

79. No person shall catch, or in any manner take or kill, in
said waters, at any time, any white perch of any size less than