VIII PUBLIC GENEhUL LAWS. 



-Not to catch Sub-Sec. 1. No person shall fish in the Potomac 

 iicenseV °" River or its tributaries, for Shad and Hening 

 during the season herein prescribed, with seines, 

 gill-nets or nets of any kind, without having first 

 obtained a license therefor, as hereinafter pro- 

 vided; and no person shall be entitled tr> obtain 

 such license for fishing with a hauling seine who 

 Not entitled is not the owuer or occupier of some fishing shore 

 to license. ^^ ^^^^ liver, nor shall any be entitled to obtain 

 such license for fishing with gill-nets, except bona 

 fide citizens of the counties bordering on said 

 river. 



This Act repeals sub-section 1 of Chapter 205, 

 Laws of 1870, and re-enacts the same as in the 

 text. 



How to ob- Sub-Sec. 2. All [>ersoiis entitled under the laws 

 taiu license, ^f ^i^j^ g^^^^ ^^ £g|^ f^j. gj^.^^^ ^^^^ Herring in the 



Potomac River and its tributaries, shall first ob- 

 tain a license therefor, by application to the Clerk 

 of the Circuit Court for the county bordering on 

 said river opposite to, or in which he may desire 

 to fish, which license shall have eflect for, and 

 during the period hereinbefore fixed; and the 

 Treasurer to Comptroller . of the Treasury shall cause to b(i 

 furuish blank pi-iQted and delivered to the several Clerks of the 

 icense. Circuit Courts for the counties bordering on said 



river, the requisite number of such blank licenses, 

 and take their receipts for the same as for other 

 licenses furnished; and said Clerks shall, on the 

 Return to first Monday in June in gacli year, return to the 

 Gomptroiicr, gj^-^| Comptroller a list and account of such licenses 

 issued by them. 



Sub-Sec. 3. Ev^ery license to fish, as aforesaid, 

 jfj^^jgjj^^j.g. shall stale the name and residence of the person 

 aidence. to wliom the samc is granted, the description of 



the fishing f^y. to be used, whether hauling seine 

 or gill-net ; the number of square fathoms of 

 seine or net when rigged, and that he is the bona 

 fide owner of the samc_, and every person to whom 

 such license may bcVranted, shall first pay to the 

 Clerk where granted, three cents for each square 

 fathom of seine, and one cent for each square 

 fiithom of gill-net to be used; but no license shall 

 1)6 granted to any one applying for the same, 

 unless such applicant shall make oath before the 

 Clerk authorized to issue the same, or before some 

 Justice of tlie Peace of the same count}^, upon 



