PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS. VII 



and may for that purpuso also press, at the ex- 

 pense of the State, any steamboat or other vessel 

 belongino- to any citizen of this State not actually 

 engaged in carrying the United States mail. 



Section. li\ is repealed by Chapter 12, Laics of 

 1872. 



Sec. IT. If any person shall, during the months 

 mentioned in the preceding section, place any 

 boat, vessel or other obstruction or hindrance in ftshinff.''^""^ 

 the way of laying out or hauling any seine used 

 in any lawful fishery on said river or its tributa- 

 ries, or otherwise obstruct or hinder such laying 

 out or hauling, and he or his agents' shall fail or 

 refuse forthwith to remove such obstruction or 

 hindrance on being required to do so by the per- 

 son so obstructed or hindered, he shall pay a fine ^''"''• 

 of not less than twenty nor more than one liundred 

 <lollars. 



Sec. 18. If any person shall vrilfully and ma- 

 liciously place any obstruction or hindrance in the 

 way of laying out or liauling in any seine, in ^f'i^l.t'jon"^ ^^ 

 any lawful fishery upon the Potomac Eiver, or 

 its tributaries, or in any other manner or way 

 prevent a hona fide owner of a shore, or his 

 agent or tenant, from using or fishing such 

 shore, he shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay not Forfeiture 

 less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hun- 

 dred dollars, or be imprisoned for not less than 

 one month, nor more than one year; this and the • 

 preceding section not to a.j^ply to any obstruction 

 or hindrance by unavoidalde accident or stress of 

 weather. 



Sec. ID. Any ovv'uer, or occupier of a fishery on 

 the Potomac may cause and permit all vessels em- Owner cf fish- 

 ployed by him in carrying on his business to be vegsrr"to^ an- 

 anchored or moved opposite his shore, but not so tbor. 

 as to interfere with the rights of the owners or 

 occupiers of adjoining shores in laying out their 

 seines. 



Sec. 20, Art. 41, Code of Fuhlic General Law-^, 

 is repealed hy CliapAer 292, Laics 18(r2. 



Sub-Sec. 1. And be if further enacted, Tluit 

 sub-section one, of tlic Code of Public General I'^^cnacted. 

 Laws, title "Fish and Fisheries,'" sub-title "Po- 

 tomac," be and the same is hereby repealed, and 

 re-enacted so as to read as follows : 



