PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS. XIII 



of takingTsliad or herring : nor shall any person 

 whip, tlirash or lieat the water of the Patuxent 

 River with poles or any other instruments, for the 

 purpose of driving- fish into any seine or net ; nor Size of seine, 

 shall any person in fishing in the said river, be- 

 tween the fifth day of March and the fifteenth day 

 of May, use any seine or net with meshes of less 

 size than one and three-eighths of an inch square : 

 or durino; the rest of the vear with any seine or net 

 with meshes of a less size than two inches square, 

 and no person shall empty any seine except in 

 water twelve inclies deep ; and any person viola- 

 ting this section :>hall he subject to the Jinc and 

 I'orieitures provided in tlie twenty-second section 

 of this Article. 



Laws 1874, Chaplcr 80, mhl ihe foUo/n'ru/ sec- 

 llom : 



Sec. 23, A. liC it eiuiciedbii the Gciieral Assemhly 

 of 31ari/Iand, That no vessel, float, raft or boat of 

 any description, unless compelled to do so by stress 

 of weather or other unavoidable accident, shall be 

 ancliored or stayed in the berth or haul of any 

 rcgularl}" hauled fishing shore in the Patuxent 

 River, and remain thus anchored for the space of ^'^'^t'^aDchsr. 

 half an hour, when the weather will permit the 

 departure of such vessel, raft, float or boat, after 

 being warned to depart tlierefrom by tlie owner or 

 occupant of said fishery. 



Sect. 23, ]3. And he it enacted, That any person 

 violating; the preceding section, shall ])ay to the PcnaitF for 

 owner of said fishery a fine of twenty dollars for "' 



each ofience, and every hour the vessel, float or 

 boat continues after the half hour mentioned in 

 the preceding section, shall bo considered a new 

 and separate oflence. 



Sect' 23, 0. And he it enacted, That the captain 

 or owner of the vessel, float or boat referred to in 

 the two preceding sections, shall be liable to pay Liable, 

 said fine, and the vessel, float or boat so anchored 

 and stayed as above mentioned, shall also be liable 

 to be seized and sold to pay any fines imposed under 

 the preceding sections. 



Sect. 23, D. Andhe it enacted, That if any such 

 vessel, float or boat shall be willingly, wantonly 

 and maliciously, or from gross negligence sailed ^ot to sail 

 through any seine extended in any of said fisheries, t^''°"sh- 



