ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1177

ment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more
than three years, or be both fined and imprisoned in the dis-
cretion of the Court.

THRESHING STREAMS.

Sec. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person to whip or
beat any of the waters of this State with poles, sticks or any
other thing, for the purpose of driving fish into nets, seines
or any other contrivance for catching fish, provided that noth-
ing in this section shall be construed to apply to the waters of
Kent County and Queen Anne County, except to the waters of
the Sassafras River and its tributaries.

REMOVAL OF FISH WITHOUT PERMISSION UNLAWFUL—

PENALTY.

Sec. 17. Any person or persons taking and carrying away
fish belonging to another person, with intent to convert the
same to their own use, from any boat, live box, or in the pocket
or crib of any pound net or inclosed or gilled in a fish net of
any kind, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial
and conviction shall be fined a sum not exceeding $100, or
sentenced to the county jail in the county where he shall be
first brought for trial, or to the Maryland House of Correc-
tion, for a period not exceeding two years, or both fine and
imprisonment.

ANCHORED BOATS NOT To INTERFERE WITH ANY FISHERY.

Sec. 18. No vessel or boat of any description, unless com-
pelled to do so by stress of weather or any other unavoidable
accident, shall be anchored or stayed in any fishery of the
waters of this State at any time during the shad and herring
season, but shall depart within one-half hour when ordered
to do so by the owner or occupier of such fishery.

VESSELS SAILING THROUGH SEINES.

Sec. 19. If any vessel, float or boat shall be wittingly,
wantonly and maliciously, or from gross negligence, sailed
through any seine extended in any fishery, the skipper, captain
or other person commanding such vessel, float or boat shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall pay upon conviction before
a justice of the peace or court of competent jurisdiction, a fine
equal to the damages ascertained as suffered by the owner or