IV PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS. 



sUkes"' above^ ^^^' ^' ^^ persoii shall place iu the head waters 

 Poole's Island, of the Chesapeake Bay, or in the Sassafras, Elk, 

 Bohemia, North East or Susquehanna Rivers, or 

 in any of their tributaries, any stakes, piles or 

 other thing for the purpose of attaching seines or 

 nets thereto, with a view of taking Shad or fish 

 of any description; this not to apply to any por- 

 tion of said Bay below Poole's Island. 



Sec. 4 is rejjealed hy Chapter 190, Laws 1872. 

 Sec, 5. Any person violating either of the two 

 preceding sections, shall forfeit the seine or nets 

 attached as aforesaid, and the boats and materials 

 used for fishing the seine, and shall also for each 

 oifence pay a fine of fifty dollars. 



Sec. 6. No vessel, float of timber or plank, or of 



anchor!*^ '^ ^ '^^Y other materials, or of any description or kind 

 whatsoever, nor any boat of any description, un- 

 less compelled to do so, by stress of weather, or 

 other unavoidable accident, shall be anchored or 

 stayed in any fishery in the Susquehanna River, 

 or at the head of the Chesapeake Bay, at any time 

 between the first day of April, and twentieth day 

 of May, in any year, and remain thus anchored 

 for the space of half an hour, when the weather 

 will admit of the departure of such vessel, float or 

 boat, after being ordered to depart therefrom by 

 the owner or occupier of such fishery; the usual 

 haul of a seine from any floating battery anchored 

 between Spesutia Island, and Point Concord in 

 the Chesapeake Bay, for the purpose of fishing. 

 shall be to all intents and purposes considered as 

 a fishery within the meaning of this section. 



^*"®- Sec. 7. Any person violating tlie preceding sec- 



tion shall pay a fine of twenty dollars for each 

 offence, and every hour the vessel or other ob- 

 struction continues after the half hour mentioned 

 in the preceding section shall be considered a new 

 and saparate oflence. 



a'^'fine'^'^^'^ Scc. 8. The skipper, the captain, owner or o«- 

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

 two preceding sections, shall be liable to pay said 

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

 stayed as above mentioned, shall also be liable to 

 be seized and sold to pay any fines imposed under 

 the preceding section. 



Shallliave ^ , , , ,1,1 



damages. See. 9. If any such vessel, float or boat shall be 



willingly, wantonly and maliciously, or from gross 



