BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 2G5 



A BILL 1'HOI'OSI!) TO Till: RIABTLAND I, EG ISE A I I IRE AT THE 

 SKS.«lIO\ OF 1ST6, AIVD ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REGULATE THE 

 CATCHING VM> TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FISH 

 IN THE WATERS OF THE STATE AND OF THE POTOMAC RIVER." 



By MR. MIGHT. 



Section I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Maryland, That no 

 person shall catch or take shad or herring- in the waters of the State 

 and in the Potomac Eiver before the fifteenth of March or after the 

 first day of June in each year. 



Sec. II. And be it enacted, That during the season for fishing for 

 shad and herring, as above provided, no person shall take or catch with 

 seine, fyke-net, gill-net, or net of any kind, or with weir or fixed appa- 

 ratus of anj- kind or description, any fish between the hours of twelve 

 o'clock in. on Saturday and twelve o'clock midnight on Sunday in each 

 week. 



Sec. III. And be it enacted, That no person shall fish for or take or 

 earck any kind of fish with seine, fyke-net, or gill-net, or net of any kind 

 or description, or with weir or other fixed apparatus of any kind or de- 

 scription, without first having obtained a license therefor, as hereinafter 

 provided. 



Sec. IV. And be it enacted, That the comptroller of the treasury 

 shall issue, through the clerks of the several circuit courts of the State, 

 or the clerk of the court of common pleas of Baltimore City when the 

 person applying is a resident of Baltimore City, to a person who is a 

 bona fide resident of the county or city where the application is made, 

 a license to commence on the first day of March and to hold good for 

 one year, to fish, and to take and catch fish with seine, gill-net, fyke- 

 net, or net of any other description, or with weir or other fixed appa- 

 ratus, in any of the waters of this State, subject to the exceptions and 

 provisions in this act. 



Sec. Y. And be it enacted, That every license to fish as aforesaid 

 shall state the name and residence of the person to whom the same is 

 granted ; the description of the seine, net, or other apparatus to be 

 used ; the number of square yards of seine, net, or other apparatus 

 when rigged, and that he is the bona fide owner of the same ; but no 

 such license shall be granted unless the person applying for the same 

 shall make oath before the clerk of the court authorized to issue the 

 same, or before some j ustice of the peace of the same county or city, 

 upon whose certificate that such oath ,has been made the clerk may 

 issue such license that the facts required to be stated in said license are 

 strictly true, and that he will comply with all the laws of this State 

 regulating the time and manner of catching fish. 



Sec. YI. And be it enacted. That the clerks of the several circuit 



