42 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 14

net owned and operated by him, whereupon the said Comp-
troller shall issue to such applicant a license or licenses to
operate such purse or buck nets, and all moneys arising from
said license shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit
of the Conservation Fund, and any person failing to procure
such a license and violating this provision of this section shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be
subject to the fines and penalties imposed by Section 5 of this
article, and to the penalties imposed by the Statutes of Mary-
land for failure to procure licenses wherever required by law.
It shall be unlawful to use a purse or buck net with a mesh
less than three inches for the catching of food fish, and no
license shall be issued by the Comptroller of the Treasury
for the use of a purse or buck net with a mesh less than three
inches, and it shall be unlawful to fish with purse or buck
nets within any of the waters of this State for the purpose of
catching menhaden or any other kind of fish for the manu-
facture therefrom of oil or guano, or for any other use than
food; and any person or persons violating this provision shall
upon conviction be subject to a fine not exceeding three hun-
dred dollars, each day's illegal fishing to constitute a separate
offense. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
no one shall be permitted to use purse or buck nets in Chester
River or any of the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay within
the limits of Baltimore, Queen Anne's, Anne Arundel, Har
ford and Cecil Counties. It shall be unlawful to use a purse
net within one mile of the shores of Harford County, exclu-
sive of Poole's Island.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That an additional sec-
tion be added to said Article 39, sub-title "Trout and Other
Fish," to be known as Section 82A, to follow Section 82 of
said Article, and to read as follows:

82A. Whenever any water-course, well, spring, open ditch,
gutter, cesspool, sewer, private or public, drain, privy-pit, pig-
pen, or other place, or any accumulation or deposit of waste
or other offensive or noxious matters discharged from any
house, building, trades establishment or manufacturing place,
or any waste from any vessel, shall become or dangerously
threaten to become deleterious to or destructive of fish or