642 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 459]

deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
before a justice of the peace for Dorchester county or in the
Circuit Court for Dorchester County having jurisdiction, be
fined a sum of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) or
more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each and every
such offense, and shall stand committed to the county jail until
all fines and costs are paid. One-half of all such fines shall go
to the informer, if other than an officer of the State, and the
other half shall be paid over to the County Commissioners of
Dorchester County, all of which fines, together with said license
fees, shall be used by said County Commissioners in improving
the public county roads of the aforesaid Election Districts Nos.
5, 6 and 10, or in replenishing the depleted oyster bottoms lying
wholly in said districts, in their discretion. All persons
engaged in taking or catching crabs with trot line and net under
the provisions of this act shall exhibit their authority or license
for so doing when required by any officer of the State Fishery
Force or any other officer of the State. Provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the resi-
dents of Wicomico county from crabbing in the waters of Nanti-
coke River now used in common by the residents of Wicomico
and Dorchester counties.

SEC. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 459.

AN ACT to incorporate the Westernport and Keyser Electric
Railway and Power Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Andrew Ramsay, Hazelhurst Sprigg and James P.
Gaffney, of Allegany county, in the State of Maryland, and
Frank C. Reynolds and George G. Dixon, of Mineral county,
in the State of West Virginia, and all other persons who shall
hereafter become stockholders of the company hereby incor-
porated, shall be a body corporate by the name of the Western-
port and Keyser Railway and Power Company, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession.

PEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation under
the above name shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding,
possessing, selling and conveying property, real, personal and