Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-06-17
PUBLIC LOCAL LAW s
FOR CHARLES COUNTY,
Passed by the General Assembly Of Mary
land, at the January Session, 1870.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
published BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER 2O5.7
FOR CHARLES COUNTY

CHAPTER 205.
To repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec
tons twelve and fourteen of Article forty
one, Code of Public General Laws, title,
ttFish and Fisheries subtitle, Potomac,
and to add additional sections thereto, for
the further protection of fish, and regulation
Of the shad and herring fisheries in said river.
SECTION l.. Be 1T enacted By the General As
fourteen of Article forty-one, Code of Public
General Laws, title, "Fish and Fisheries" I'M
der the head of Potomac, be and they are here
by repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
as follows:
r. The fishing season for shad and herring,
in the waters of the Potomac river, shall begin
the fifteenth day of March and end the first day
of June in each year.
IA. No person shall haul, drift or fish any
seine or gill net within the water-bounds, or
berths of any regularly hauled fishing landing,
nor opposite to any part of the shore of the
owner or occupier Of any such landing, within
fifteenth day of March and the first day of
June, in each year, without the permission of
the owner or occupier of such fishing landing,
and any person so offending shall be subject to
the forfeiture and fine prescribed by the next
preceding section.
Sec. q. And be 1t further enacted, That the
following additional sections be added to said
Article, to follow Section twenty, and to be
numbered as sub-sections one, two, three, four,
fve six, seven eight, nine and ten, viz:
!Sub-Ssc. L. No person shall fish in the Po-
tomac river, or its tributaries, for shad and
herring, during the season hereinbefore pre-
scribed with seines, gill nets, or nets of any
kind, without first having obtained a license
therefor as hereinafter provided.
Sub-Sec. 2. All persons entitled under the
laws of this State to fish for shad aad herring
in the Potomac river and its tributaries, shall
first obtain license therefor, by application to
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the county
bordering on said river, opposite to, or in
which he may desire to fish, which license shall
have effect for and during the period hereinbe-
fore fixed; and the Comptroller of the Treasu-
nv shall cause to be printed and delivered to
the several Clerks of the Circuit Courts for the
counties bordering on said river, the requisite
number of such blank licenses, and take their
receipts for the same as for other licenses fur
nished and said Clerks shall, on the first Mon
day in June in each year, return to the said
Comptroller list and account of such licenses
issued by them.
Sub-Ssc. 3. Every license to fish as aforesaid,
shall state the name and residence OF the per-
son to whom the same is granted, the descrip-
ton of the fishing fix to be used, whether haul
ing seine or gill net; the number of square ia
thoms of seine or net when rugged, and that he
is the bona fde owner of the same; and every
person to whom such license may be granted
Shall first pay to the Clerk where granted three
cents for each square fathom of seine, and one
cent for each square fathom of gill net to be
used but no license shall be granted to any
one applying for the same, unless such appli-
can't shall make oath before the Clerk authoriz-
ed to issue the same, or before some Justice Of
the Peace ofthe same county, upon whose Ger
tificate the Clerk may issue said license, that
the number of square fathoms of the seine or
net to be used, and the other facts to be insert
ed in said license are strictly true, and that he
or they will obey and comply with all the pro-
visions of the laws of this State regulating
fishing in the Potomac river, and for each and
every outfit, of hauling seine or gill net,
license shall be required.
Sub-Sec 4. If any person shall flsh for shad
or herring in the Potomac river, or Its trlbuta-
ries aforesaid, without having first obtained
license, as required in the preceding Sections
of this Article, except fish caught for private
use and not for sale, he shall upon conviction
thereof be fined not less than twenty nor more
than one hundred dollars, for the hrst onense,
and for any second or subsequent ottense be SO
fined, or in the discretion OF the Justlce, or
Court before whom tried, forfeit the seine, or
net, boat and other outfit used in such hshlng;
or be both fined, and subject to the forfeiture
aforesaid; one-half of such fine to be paid to
the informer, and the residue to the Comptrol-
Ter of the Treasury
Su6-Ssc. 5. Every person to whom such Ii