STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1345 



No. 183. 1896, April 7: Extract from Statute of Maryland, Cap. 441. 



An Act to add new sections to Article thirty-nine of the Code of Public General 

 Laws, title " Fish and Fisheries," to be known as sub-title. ' Chesapeake 

 Bay,'' to follow Section eighty-nine of said Article thirty-nine, and to be 

 designated as Sections ninety, ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety- three, ninety- 

 four, ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hun- 

 dred and one hundred and one. 



SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, 

 That the following new sections be and the same are hereby added to 

 Article 39, Code of Public General Laws, title " Fish and Fisheries," 

 sub-title " Chesapeake Bay," said new sections to be designated as 

 sections 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 and 101, and to read as 

 follows : 



90. Any resident of this State desiring to engage in the business of 

 taking or catching of fish for sale, by the use of pound nets, fykes, 

 haul seines or other contrivances, except hook and line, within the 

 waters of the Chesapeake Bay, below Pool's island, and within the 

 jurisdictional limits of the State of Maryland, shall first obtain by 

 application to the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county wherein 

 he may reside, or the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Balti- 

 more city, a license therefor, and such license shall have effect from 

 the first day of February, in the year in which it may have been ob- 

 tained, to the first day of February, inclusive, next succeeding; and 

 provided further, that such license shall not authorize the taking or 

 catching of fish, except with hook and line, within the jurisdictional 

 limits of any county or counties in this State. 



91. Each and every license to take or catch fish for sale under the 

 provision of section 90 of this article, shall state the name, age and 

 residence of the person to whom the same is to be granted, and every 

 applicant for such license shall pay to the clerk of the Circuit Court 

 or the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore city when 

 such license shall be granted and before the delivery of the same, the 

 sum of five dollars ; the clerk to receive the sum of twenty-five cents 

 per each and every license so issued, as a fee for issuing the same, in- 

 cluding the administering of the oath when required; and the said 

 amount of license received for issuing same shall be paid over by the 

 clerk into the treasury of the State of Maryland, to be credited to the 

 " Oyster Fund." 



92. Every applicant for license to take or catch fish for sale, under 

 the provisions of this article, shall be required to make oath or af- 

 firmation before the clerk authorized to issue the same, or before some 

 justice of the peace, on whose certificate of the taking of such oath or 

 affirmation, the clerk shall issue said license that " the facts set forth 

 in said license are strictly true ; that he has been a bona fide resident 

 of the State of Maryland for the twelve months next preceding his 

 application for said license, and that no non-resident of the State of 

 Maryland is either directly or indirectly interested in use of said 

 pound net, fyke or haul seine or other contrivance used in taking fish 

 for sale, or any boat or vessel used in the prosecution of said fishing, 

 of pound nets, fykes, haul seines, or other contrivances in the taking 



or catching of fish for sale." 



794 93. The comptroller of the treasury shall cause to be printed 

 and delivered to the clerk of the Circuit Courts for the several 



