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said county, while engaged in shooting at or killing wild ducks
or other wild fowl, he shall be subject to a fine of not less than
five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offence: and all
things hereinafter enumerated which shall have been used in
violation of this section, shall be forfeited; that is to say, the
sink-boats, sneak-boats, crafts, or floats, the gun or guns, ammu-
nition, and all other property found in the possession or use of
such person, at the time of the arrest and seizure, together with
the boat, craft, or float, and all things on board, or belonging to
the same, employed to convey the said person to any of the
aforesaid waters, for the purpose or use of any or of all the
above enumerated articles, in the manner aforesaid, and all
which said articles, boat, craft, or float, and all other property
seized and taken by virtue of this law, shall be condemned and
sold, and the proceeds distributed as hereinafter provided.

199. Any sheriff, constable, or commissioned militia officer
of said county, who shall be satisfied, either upon his own view
or from information received of any other person, whether on
oath or not, that any person has violated any of fhe provisions
of this law, such officer shall be, and be is hereby, authorized
and empowered to arrest and take into custody such person so
offending, and the boatmen found on board or belonging to the
boat or float employed to convey such offender to Baltimore
county, for the purpose of shooting at or killing wild ducks or
•wild fowl of any description, contrary to this law, and he shall
seize and take into his possession the said boat or craft, and all
the appurtenances belonging to the same, and all the articles
and other property hereinbefore enumerated.

200. The said officers shall carry the person so arrested before
a justice of the peace of said county, representing to the justice
the breach of law committed, and the said justice shall take
cognizance of the offence then charged, and he shall docket a
case, in. the name of the State, against each person in the
custody of the said officers, and immediately have summoned
before him the witness or witnesses in the case or cases, and
shall exammo the Baid witness or witnesses on oath.

201. Any white person, who aided the said officer in making
the arrest and seizure shall be a competent witness against the
parties charged; and the said justice shall inquire fully into the
alleged offence, of which finding sink-boats, sneak-boats, or floats
on board of the said boat or craft, employed as aforesaid, or in
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