Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1829-03-06

AN ACT to regulate the use of Gill Nets or Gill
SENS in the River Delaware, to impose lax
thereon, and TO provide for the payment Of the
same.
Section /. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Delaware IN
General Assembly met, that from and after the first
day OF March next, no person OF persons whatso-
ever, shall place or use in the River Delaware,
within the limits and jurisdiction of this State, any
gill net or gill seine for the purpose Of taking Shad
or other Fish, without having first applied for, and
obtained from the Clerk of the Peace of the County
within which said gill net gill seine to be used,
license for using the same, which license shall be
granted for the term of one year, upon the pay
ment of the tax or duty hereinafter mentioned and
laid, and shall be renewed annually, upon the pay
ment of the like sum-
Sec end. And be it enacted that if any person or
persons shall, after the said first day of March,
place OF use in the River Delaware any gill net or
or gill seine for the purpose aforesaid without hav-
ing first obtained license therefore, such per-
son or persons shall, in addition to the payment of
the tax duty, forfeit and pay the sum Of Fifty
dollars with full costs of prosecution to be recover
ed by indictment in the Court of General Quarter
Sessions of the County in which the same may be so
placed or used and such license shall not author
lze or entle the person or persons obtaining 1t to
use more than one gill net or gill seine which
shall be OF the dimensions specified therein and
any person or persons, who by colour of such
license, shall use or employ more than one gill net
or gill seine or who shall use or employ gill net or
gill seine of larger dimensions than specified in
said license, shall in each be deemed to be
without license, and shall also 10 each case forfeit
and pay like sum of Fifty dollars to be recovered
as herein before directed.
Sec. 3rd. And be it further enacted that tax or
duty of five dollars shall be imposed on license
for the of every gill net gill seine in the riv-
er Delaware, which shall not exceed the length OF
sixty FIVE E,thoms, each fathom 10 consist OF six
feet and for the of every gil net or gill seine
which shall exceed the length of sixty-fve fathoms
there shall be paid an additional tax or duty of one
dollar for each and every fathom of such excess
and before the granting of such license the person
or persons applying for the same shall make oath OF
affirmation before the SAID Clerk of the Peace or
before some Judge or Justice of the Peace OF the
County, in which shall be stated the true length OF
the gill net or Gill seine for the use of which said
license is to be granted and also the place of rcs-
dence of the juror atirmant, which oath or az
firnalion shall be filed in the Office OF the said
clerk of the peace.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted that the Sec
rotary of State shall 10 be printed In proper
form, license for the use Of gill nets gill selnes
as aforesaid, which shall be sealed with the seal of
his office, signed by the Governor, countersigned
by the Secretary of State and by him distributed IN
such proportions as he may deem proper, to the
Clerks of the Peace in the respective counties, for
The purposes hcreinbefore mentioned and the SAID
Clerks. respectively, shall account for and pay
over all monies arising from such licenses, quarter
w. to the Secretary of State, who shall pay over
The same to the Trustee Of the School Fund for the
use and benefit of that Fund: And II any Clerk
IF the Peace shall neglect 10 do for the space OF
sixty DAYS after he should have made such quarterly
payment he shall ipso facto forfeit his office and be
immediately liable to an action for the recovery
Of said money.
Passed at Dover. February l2lh, 1929
WILLIAM w. MORRIS.
Speaker of the House of Representative.
p. SPRUANcE. JR.
Speaker of the Senate.
Office of the Secretary of State,l
Dover, goth Feb. i829.S
I SAMUEL NJ. HARRINGTON, Secretary Of the
tate Of Delaware
:;YSSasse. foregoing is a Copy of an Act of the
III General Assembly of the said State ;, entitled si
Gill Senes in the River Delaware, to impose
sssIS' Tax til .reon and to provide for the payment OF
he same" passed at Dover, Feb. 18th, 829-Collated
nth and corrected by the original now OF record ID TINS
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF have hereunto set my
and and affixed the Seal of the said Office at Dover the
~ a"N 80 49, S. N. HARRINGTON.
Secretary of Sta,es
N. B. Licenses are ready for delivery at the Office
the Clerk of the Peace, for New Castle county.
ELECTION.