ART. 19.] SOMERSET COUNTY. 811

directed to some constable, and on return thereof and the
appearance of the party, to hear and determine the matter as
he may deem just and right.

76. Any justice may receive the fine and costs imposed under
the said section, and shall, under the penalty of two hundred
dollars, Account for the same (except the costs and such part
thereof as the informer may be entitled to) to the county com-
missioners of said county, within six months thereafter.

77. No informer shall be entitled to any part of said fine,
unless the offence charged shall have been proved by a dis-
interested witness, but in such case the whole 'fine shall be paid
to the county commissioners.

78. Every person who shall set or be concerned in any weir
in the waters of Somerset county, shall remove the same within
sixty days after the expiration of twelve months from the
setting of such -weir.

79. No person shall cast over any oysters or oyster shells,
ballast, or any other thing, upon the bottom of any harbor
or anchoring ground in said county, by which such harbor or
anchoring ground may be filled up, or by which vessels lying
at anchor, or the free and easy access of vessels to and from
said harbor or anchoring ground, may be in any manner hin-
dered 'or obstructed, and any person so offending, upon indict-
ment and conviction in the Circuit Court, or before any justice
of the peace for the county, shall be fined not less than ten nor
more than thirty dollars, and for the second offence not less
than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, and in default of pay-
ment, shall be imprisoned not less than three nor more than ten
days, and for the third offence shall be fined not less than fifty
nor more than two hundred dollars, and in default of payment,
shall be imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty days,
or may be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the
court or justice before whom he may be tried.

80. The one-half of all fines imposed under the preceding
section, shall go to the informer, and the other half to the
school fund of said county.