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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 441.
AN ACT to add new Sections to Article thirty-nine of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Fish and Fisheries," to
be known as sub-title, "Chesapeake Bay," to follow Section
eighty-nine of said Article thirty-nine, and to be designated
as Sections ninety, ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three,
ninety-four, ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight,
ninety-nine, one hundred and one hundred and one.

New sections

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following new sections be and the same are
hereby added to Article 39, Code of Public General Laws,
title "Fish and Fisheries," sub-title "Chesapeake Bay," said
new sections to be designated as sections 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95,
96, 97, 98, 99, 100 and 101, and to read as follows :

Incense to
catch fish.

90. Any resident of this State, desiring to engage in the
business of taking or catching of fish for sale, by the use of
pound nets, fykes, haul seines or other contrivances, except
hook and line, within the waters of the Chesapeake bay, below
Pool's island, and within the jurisdictional limits of the State
of Maryland, shall first obtain by application to the clerk of
the Circuit Court for the county wherein he may reside, or the
clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore city, a
license therefor, and such license shall have effect from the
first day of February, in the year in which it may have been
obtained, to the first day of February, inclusive, next succeed-
ing; and provided further, that such license shall not authorize
the taking or catching of fish, except with hook and line,
within the jurisdictional limits of any county or counties in
this State.

Cost of
license.

91. Each and every license to take or catch fish for sale
under the provision of section 90 of this article, shall state the
name, age and residence of the person to whom the same is to be
granted, and every applicant for such license shall pay to the
clerk of the Circuit Court or the clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas of Baltimore city, when such license shall be
granted and before the delivery of the same, the sum of five
dollars; the clerk to receive the sum of twenty-five cents per
each and every license so issued, as a fee for issuing the
same, including the administering of the oath when required ;
and the said amount of license received for issuing same shall
be paid over by the clerk into the treasury of the State of
Maryland, to be credited to the "Oyster Fund."