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, ninetyfour, ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred 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 Baltimore 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 obtained, 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, including 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 affirmation 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."

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93. The comptroller of the treasury shall cause to be printed and delivered to the clerk of the Circuit Courts for the several

counties the requisite number of such blank licenses, and take receipt for the same, and for other licenses furnished; and said clerk shall, on the first Monday in July and December, of each year, return to the comptroller a list and account of such licenses issued by them and at the end of each year shall return all unused blank. licenses to him, and shall pay over to the comptroller all the moneys received by them for such license, which amount the said comptroller shall place to the credit of the oyster fund.

94. It shall not be lawful for any person in taking fish for sale by the use of pound nets, fykes or other contrivances, now known or hereafter invented, to set such pound nets, fyke nets or other contrivances, now known or hereafter invented, in waters of the Chesapeake bay, within the jurisdictional limits of the State of Maryland, and below Pool's island, in the Chesapeake bay, at a greater length than 800 yards from low water mark; and any person violating this section shall, upon conviction thereof, before some justice of the peace of any county of this State most accessible, shall [Sic.] be fined the sum of not less than twenty or more than one hundred dollars, or shall forfeit said net or nets, together with the boats and tackles used in the violation of sections 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, of this article, or both fine and forfeiture, at the discretion of the justice of the peace trying the same; provided, that the party feeling aggrieved shall have the right of appeal as in other cases tried before justices of the peace; and provided further, that in case of appeal, the person appealing shall give to the State of Maryland a good and sufficient bond, covering double the amount of the fine or forfeiture, in case of forfeit, so as to secure to the State the amount of fine and forfeiture, in case he does not prosecute his appeal with effect.

95. Any non-resident of this State violating either sections 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, or 98 of this article, by the use of any pound net, fyke net, haul seine or other contrivance, now known or hereafter invented, in the taking or catching of fish, shall, on conviction thereof, before some justice of the peace of any county of this State most accessible, forfeit said pound net, fyke net, haul seine or other contrivance, now used or hereafter invented for taking fish, together with all boats, vessels, tackle used in violation of this act, or fined a sum of not less than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, or both fine and forfeiture, in the discretion of the justice. of the peace trying the same, provided the person feeling aggrieved shall have the right of appeal to the circuit court of said county, under the provisions, of the 94th section of this article.

96. It shall be the duty of the commander of the State fishery force to command the deputies under his charge, to see that the provisions of sections 90 to 98, inclusive, of this article, are not violated, and to arrest all persons found violating any provisions of sections 90 to 98 inclusive, of this article, and take the said offender or offenders to the nearest or most accessible justice of the peace of any of the counties of this State, to be dealt with according to law.

97. All fines collected by the justices of the peace, under the provisions of sections 90 to 98, inclusive, of this article, shall, within ten days thereafter, be paid to the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which the justice of the peace may reside, and by the said clerk be paid into the Treasury of the State, to be credited to the Oyster Fund, and that the provisions of these sections of the sub

title "Chesapeake Bay," shall not apply in any sense to any of the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.

98. The use of pound nets or stake nets shall be absolutely prohibited in the Chesapeake bay, north of a line one mile south of Pool's Island, except the bay shore of Kent county up to Howel's Point at the mouth of Sassafras river, and also on the Susquehanna river; and any person who shall engage in fishing for sale, with the use of said pound nets, stake nets or similar contrivance now used or hereafter invented, shall be subject to the same fines and penalties as are prescribed in section 94 of this article. And provided further, that all persons using haul seines and similar contrivances, except pound nets and stake nets, which are hereby prohibited, shall pay the same license and be subject to the provisions of all the sections under the sub-title "Chesapeake Bay," of this article, except gill nets, which are exempted.

No. 184.-1880, June 8: German Notice respecting the Observance by German Fishermen of the Limits of Danish Coast FishingGrounds.

DEUTSCHES REICHS.

Bekanntmachung.

Die Königlich dänische Regierung beabsichtigt, im bevorstehenden Sommer das Kanonenboot "Villemoes" and der dänischen Küste zu stationiren, um die Fischerei in den dänischen Küstengewässern zu überwachen. Der Kommandant des "Villemoes" wird angewiesen werden, die fremden Fischer, welche innerhalb der dänischen Küstengewässer widerrechtlich zu fischen versuchen, von dort zu entfernen. Als zu diesen Küstengewässern gehörig wird von der Königlich dänischen Regierung der Raum angesehen, welcher sich bis zu einer Entfernung von drei Seemeilen von der äuszersten Grenze des Landes in das Meer erstreckt: die Buchten, deren Eingang eine Breite von zehn Seemeilen nicht überschreitet, werden als geschlossene Gewässer betrachtet.

Zur Verhütung von Weiterungen und Nachtheilen werden die betheiligten deutschen Fischer auf die beabsichtigte Maszregel aufmerksam gemacht und vor dem Eindringen in die dänischen Fischereigründe gewarnt.

Berlin, den 8. Juni 1880.

In Vertretung des Reichskanzlers:

[Translation from Hertslet's Commercial Treaties.]

HOHENLOHE.

The Royal Danish Government intends to station the gun-boat Villemoes during the present summer on the Danish Coast, in order to guard the fishing in the Danish waters. The commander will re

ceive orders to drive away foreign fishermen who attempt illegally to fish within Danish waters. The Royal Danish Government will consider as belonging to these waters the space up to the three sea miles out to sea from the extreme limit of the land; bays, the entrances to which do not exceed 10 miles, will be considered as inland waters. To prevent complications and difficulties, German fishermen are requested to take notice of the intended measure, and are warned not to penetrate into Danish fishing-grounds.

(For the Chancellor),

Berlin, June 8, 1880.

HOHENILOHE.

No. 185.-1888, March 1: Extract from French Law, prohibiting Fishing by Foreign Vessels in the Territorial Waters of France and Algiers.

No. 19032.-Loi ayant pour objet d'interdire le pêche aux étrangers dans les eaux territoriales de France et d'Algérie.

Du 1er mars 1888.

[Promulguée au Journal officiel du 2 mars 1888..

Le Sénat et la Chambre des Députés ont adopté,

Le Président de la République promulgue la loi dont la teneur suit: ART. 1er. La pêche est interdite aux bateaux étrangers dans les eaux territoriales de la France et de l'Algérie, en deçà d'une limite pui est fixée à trois milles marins au large de la laisse de basse mer.

Pour les baies, le rayon de trois milles est mesuré à partir d'une ligne droite tirée en travers de la baie, dans la partie la plus rapprochée de l'entrée, au premier point où l'ouverture n'excède pas dix milles. Dans chacun des arrondissements maritimes, et pour l'Algérie, des décrets déterminent la ligne à partir de laquelle cette limite est comptée.