Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1917-09-07
CHI A TER IA
Approved June 81, 1917.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with
amendments Section 4 of Article 80
of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
title 'Fish and Fisheries" and TO
add new section to said Article to
be known as Section SEA, to follow
Section so thereof.
SECTION l. Be it enacted bV the Gen
erdl Assembly of Maryland, That Section
4 of Article 80 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title 81 Fish and Fisheries, - be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:
4. No person shall fish with purse or
buck nets within the State of MARYLAND
south OF the line drawn as aforesaid
without first obtaining license so to do
from the Comptroller of the Treasury, and
then only from June 18th to November
LIST OF each year, and the applicant shall
pay the sum of twenty-five dollars
($25.OO) for each and every purse or
buck net owned and operated by him.
whereupon the said Comptroller shall is
sue to such applicant 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 license
and violating this provision of this Sec
ton shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and on conviction shall be sub
Jeet to the fines and penalties imposed by
SogfI0n < nf fbiu ArA. Il
penalties imposed by the Statutes of
Maryland for failure to procure licenses
wherever required by law. 1t 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
snail be issued by the Comptroller of
the treasury for the use of 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 other waters of this State for the
purpose of catching menhaden or apv
other kind of fish for the mannfac+uro
therefrom of oil or guano, or for apv
other use than food; and any person or
persons violating this provision shall upon
conviction be subject to a fine not exceed.
ing three hundred dollars, each davis il.
legal fishing to constitute separate
oifense. Notwithstanding anything here.
IN to the contrary, no one shall be DER
mltted to use purse or buck nets in Ches-
ter River or any of the tributaries of the
Chesapeake Bay within the limits of Bal.
umore, Queen Anne s, Anne Arundel.
Hartford and Cecil Counties. II shall be
unlawful to use purse net within one
mile of the shores of Hartford County. ex.
elusive of Poles Island.
SEC. 2. And be It further enacted
That an additional section be added N
said Article 80, subtitle "Trout and
Other Fish, " to be known as Section
s2A, to follow Section SO of said Article
and to read as follows:
s2A. Whenever any water.course wall
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 anv
mouse, building, trades establishment or
manufacturing place, or any waste from
any vessel, shall become or dangerously
threaten to become deleterious 10 or de-.
structive of fish or shellfsh life, or the
propagation, cultivation or conservation
thereof, or to their safety as human food
or IN any manner a menace to said fish |
or shellfsh whether private or public
property, in any waters Of the State. the
Conservation Commission of MARYLAND
shall forthwith investigate the matter.
and If it be so found shall serve notice
in writing on the person, firm or corpora.
tlon, by whose act, default or sufferance
sneh condition may arise or continue. re.
curing the abatement of the same within
time to be fixed by the Commission and
70 be specified in the notice, under pen
atty OF not less than one hundred dollars.
nor more than three hundred dollars. or
imprisonment for not less than one year
nor more than three years, or be both