PUBLIC (tENEUAL LAWt^. XVJi 



Sec. ;M. If any offence luuler this Article is 

 coiumitted in a river dividing two counties, tlien .imij-diction. 

 the Justice or Court of either county shall have 

 jurisdiction, or if it is committed in the waters of 

 the Chesapeake Bay, then the Justices or Courts 

 of any counties bordering on that })a.rt of the I jay 

 shiill Iklvc jurisdiction. 



Sec. ijo. If any person is arrested for any offence Commitment 

 under this Article, and the fine is more than one "''^re ^fine is 

 hundred dollars, then the Justice before whom' 

 such person is brought shall commit such person, 

 unless he gives adecjuate bail to appear and answei' 

 sucli offence, at the next Circuit C'Ourt for the 

 county. 



JjUics ISilA, (J/u'i) 71, wM tliGfollowiiUj stvlions: 

 Sec. 36. It shall not bo lawful for any person lieiaiing- tn 

 or i)ersons to whip or beat the water in that p-art * 

 of the Potomac River, lying between the mouth of 

 Now Creek and Weaverton dtim, with poles, sticks 

 or other things for the purpose of driving the tisli 

 into nets, soiaes, llsh-baskets, or other seines, or 

 to erect tiny lish-pot, or to tisli with any drag-net, 

 iisli-basket or ntiier snare, or in any other man- 

 ner, except with the gig, trot-iines, dip-net or the 

 angling-roi'i. 



Sec. IJT. Any person oi' persotis offending Jigainst 

 the ])rovisions of the last preceding section, shall 

 forfeit and pay for each offence, the sum of thirty 

 dollars, to be rei;overed in the name of the County 

 Commissioners of the county in which the offence Penalty, 

 takes place, before a Justice of th'e Peace, one-half 

 to the informer, and the other half to the school 

 fund of the county, and in such action the informer 

 shall l)e a comiictcnt witness. 



Sec. 08. Every Justice of the Peace shall annu- -iiistice? oftbs 

 ally account with, the County Commissioners of ^.^^^^'{_ '" ''"'" 

 his county, at the meeting to make the county 

 levy, for all fines received under this Act, under 

 the penalty of iifty dollars for each hue, by hiju 

 iranosed or received. 



