Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1896-05-15

AN ACT TO ADD NEW SECTIONS TO
ARTICLE 80 OF THE CODE OF PUB
Lie GENERAL LAWS, TITLE FISH
AND FISHERIES" TO BE KNOWN
AS SUBTITLE "CHEsAPEAKE
BAY" TO FOLLOW SECTION SO OF
SAID ARTICLE SO. AND TO BE DIES
IGNATED AS SECTIONS 80, 81. %. IS.
"a. %, 90, 81, IS, 3d. 100 AND lOl.
Section l. BE 1t enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland. That the follow
hereby. added to Article SO OF the Code OF
Public General Laws. title Fish and
Fisheries" subtitle Chesapeake Bay"
and said new sections to be designated as
Sections 30, 81, %. 90, 49, s. 96, g. IS, 80, 100
and l0l, and to read as follows.
20. Any resident Of this state desiring to
engage in the business Of taking or catch
ing OF fish for sale by the use of pound
ances. except hook and line, within the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay. below
Pools 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,
license therefor, and such license shall
have effect from the first day Of February
in the year in which It may have been OBJ
tanned 10 the first day OF February, in
further, that such license shall not au-
thoriZe the taking or catching Of fish.
except with hook and line within the
iurisdiCional limits Of any county or
counties in this state.
81 Each and every license to take or
catch fish for sale under the provision Of
Section 80 Of this article shall state the
name. age and residence Of the person to
whom the same is 10 be granted, and every
applicant for such license shan pay to
the clerk OF the circuit court or the clerk
of the Court Of Common Pleas Of Balti-
more 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 for
each and every license so issued, as fee
for issuing the same. including the adj
minlstering 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
o. Every applicant for license to take
or catch fish for sale under the provisions
of this article shall be required to make
oath or affirmation before the clerk au-
thorizsd TO issue the same. or before some
justice OF the peace, on whose certificate
OF the taking of such oath or affirmation
the clerk shall issue SAID license; that the
facts set forth in said license are strictly
true; that he has been bona nde resident
OF the state Of Maryland for the twelve
months next preceding his application for
SlIQ license ana thBI no non resident OF
the state of Maryland is either directly or
Indirectly interested in use OF said pound
net, fyke or haul seine or other
contrivance used in taking fish for
sale or any boat or vessel used In the
prosecution of said fishing of pound nets,
fykes, haul selnes or other contrivances
in the taking or catching of fish for sale"
9S. The Comptroller OF the Treasury
shall cause to be printed and delivered to
the clerk OF the circuit courts for the
several counties the requisite number of
such blank licenses, and take receipt for
the same, as for other licenses furnished:
and said clerks shall, on the first Monday
In July and December Of each year, re
turn to the Comptroller list and account
Of such licenses issued by them, and al
the end OF each year shall return all IN
used blank licenses to him. and shall pay
over to the Comptroller all the moneys
received by them for such license, which
amount the said Comptroller shall place
TO the credit Of the oyster Fund
81. II shall not be lawful for any person
in taking fish for sale BY the use of pound
nets, fykes or other contrivanees, now
known or hereafter invented, to set such
pound nets, fyke nets or other contriv-
ances. now known or hereafter invented
in waters Of the Chesapeake Bay, within
the jurisdictionai limits OF the state of
Maryland, and below pools Island, fl
the Chesapeake Bay, at a greater length
than 500 yards from low water-mark; ana
any person violating this section shall
upon conviction thereof. before some JUS
state most accessible shall be iined the
sum of not less than twenty or more than
one hundred dollars, or shall forfeit said
ret or nets, together with the boats and
tackles used in the violation Of Sections
30. 81, 9s, IS. "a, IS, 96, ~ 9S Of this article
or both hne and forfeiture, at the discrs-
ton OF the Justice Of the pence trying the
same PROVIDED, that the party feeling ae-
grieved shall have the sight Of appeal
as in other cases tried before justices of
the peace and provided, further, that
IN case OF appeal, the person appealing
snal give 70 the state OF Maryland good
ana suihcient bona, covering double the
amount OF the fine, or forfeiture, in case
q iotIell. 50 az 70 secure 70 the state
lle sul9 ,l o. nus ana IorIeitufe, n
Use ne uoes not prosecute MS appeal with
erect
3D. Any nonresident Of this state violat-
ing either Section 20, u. 81 Oh, a. IS, vs., "
or vs. OF TINS article, by the use Of any
pound net, fyke net, haul seine or other
eontrlYances. now known or hereafter in
vented. IN the taxing or catching Of fish.
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