The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-15
Approved June %, 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 50 thereof.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Cen
erul assembly of Maryland, That Section
of Article 80 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title Fish and Fisheries, !" be
and it is hereby repealed and eenaeted
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
] st 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 a 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 he deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and on conviction shall be sub.
ject to the fines and penalties imposed by
Section of this Article, and to the
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
shall be issued by the Comptroller of
the Treasury for the use of a purse
or buck net with a mesh less than
three inches, and it shall be unlawful
to hsh with purse or buck nets within
any other waters of this State for the
purpose of catching menhaden or any
other kind of fish for the manufacture
therefrom of oil or guano, or for any
other use than food; and any person or
| persons violating this provision shall upon
conviction be subject to fine not exceed
ing three hundred dollars, each DAYS IL
legal fishing to constitute a separate
otfense. Notwithstanding anything here
IN to the contrary, no one shall be per-
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
timore, Queen Anne s, Anne Arundel.
Hartford and Cecil Counties. It shall be
unlawful to use a purse net within one
mile of the shores of Hartford County. ex-
elusive of Poles Island.
SEC 2. and be ii further enacted.
That an additional section be added to
said Article 80, subtitle Trout and
Other Fish, " to be known as Section
S2A, to follow Section 50 of said Article,
and to read as follows:
S2A. Whenever any water-course. well.
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
house, building, trades establishment or
manufacturing place, or any waste from
any vessel, shall become or dangerously
threaten to become deleterious to or de-
structive of fish or shellhsh 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 shellfish 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 a notice
in writing on the person, firm or corpora
ton, by whose act, default or sufferance
such condition may arise or continue, re-
! quiring the abatement of the same within
time to be fixed by the Commission and
to be specified in the notice, under a 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