ART. 39.] TROUT AND OTHER FISH. 67

shall result in the collection of a fine or fines, then one-half of
such fine or fines, after the proper court costs, or costs of the
magistrate in convicting the offender shall have been paid, shall
be paid to the informer, and the other half to the school fund
of the city or county in which said prosecution is conducted.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons in any manner
to throw or cause to be thrown any slab of timber or other sub-
stance across or into any stream, under a penalty of two dollars
($2) for each fish so caught, taken or killed.

1903, ch. 358. 1906, ch. 161.

86. No person shall have in possession, expose for sale, sell or
buy any of the aforesaid [fish], alive or dead, in the city of Bal-
timore, or in any of the counties of this State during the afore-
said respective closed season or dates, except white perch,
between which it is made unlawful, by the preceding sections
of this sub-title, to catch or kill the same, or at any time of any
size less than there is provided, whether such fish so had in
possession, exposed for sale, sold or bought, shall have been
caught, trapped or in any other manner taken or killed in that
county, or in any other county of this State, or in any other
State, territory or county, under a penalty for having in posses-
sion, exposing for sale, selling or buying of each such fish
similar in amount, respectively, to that hereinbefore made, and
provided for the illegal catching of the same; but nothing in
this section contained shall be so construed as to prevent any
of the fish commissioners of this State, in pursuance of their
capacity as fish culturists, or any other person or corporation
which shall first obtain a certificate in writing from the State
game warden, to the effect that such persons or corporations
are engaged in the scientific culture or propagation of fish, from
having in his or its possession alive at any time any fish for
the purpose of said scientific culture or propagation only; and
to obtain said certificate said persons or corporations must file
with the State game warden an application and affidavit to the
truth and bona fides thereof, made by the person or officer of
the corporation requesting the same, and taken before any
officer competent to administer an oath in this State; and said
affidavit and application shall be retained and kept on file by
said State game warden, but the possession of any of the afore-
said fish during any of the aforesaid closed seasons or dates
between which it is hereinbefore made unlawful to catch or