PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS. XVII 



Sec. 34. If any offence under this Article is 

 committed in a river dividing two counties, then Ji:iisdiciion. 

 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 part of the Bay 

 nshall have jurisdiction. 



Sec. 35. If any person is arrested for any offence Commitment 

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

 hundred dollars, then the Justice before whom 

 .such person is brou2:ht sliall commit such person, 

 unless he gives adequate bail to apjjcar and answer 

 such offence, at the next Circuit Court for the 

 county. 



Laws 1864, Chap. *7l, (i^dd the following sections: 



Sec. 3fi. It shall not be lawful for any person Relating t© 

 or persons to whip or beat the water in that part*^'^'" 

 of the Potomac River, lying between the mouth of 

 New Creek and VV'yaverton dam, with poles, sticks 

 or other things for the purpose of driving the fish 

 into nets seines, fish-baskets or other seines, or 

 to erect any fish-pot, or to fish with any drag-net, 

 fish-basket oi' other snare, or in any other man- 

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

 angling-rod. 



Sec. 37. xA.ny person or persons offending against 

 the provisions of the last preceding section, shall 

 forfeit and pay for each ofience, the sura of thirty 

 dollars, to be recovered in the name of the County 

 Commissioners of the county in which the offence Penalty, 

 takes place before a Justice of the Peace, one-half 

 to the iufornaer, and the other half to the school 

 fund of the county, and in sucli action the informer 

 shall be competent witness. 



Sec. 38. HI very Justice of the Peace shall annu- Justjefs^f 

 ally account with the County Commissioners of acco^n't?'^'*® 

 his county, at the meeting to make the county 

 levy, for all fines received under this Act, under 

 the penalty of fifty dollars for each fine, by lum 

 imposed or received. 



