88 ANNS ARUNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

209. Any person offending against either of the two preceding
sections, shall be fined by any justice of the peace of the county,
the sum of fifty dollars, one-half to the informer, and the other
half to the county commissioners for the use of the county. .

210. In the trial of every such case, either party shall have the
right to appeal to the Circuit Court under the limitations and
subject to the regulations provided for taking appeals from judg-
ments of justices of the peace for debt.

211. Any person or persons who shall use any sink-boats, sneak-
boats or floats in any of the rivers, creeks or waters of Anne
Arundel county, while engaged in shooting at or killing wild
ducks or other wild fowl, shall be subject to a fine of not less than
five nor more than fifty dollars for each offence; and the sink-
boats, sneak-boats, crafts or floats, the gun or guns, ammunition^
and all other property found in the possession or use of such
person or persons 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 said person or persons to any
of the aforesaid waters, shall be forfeited, condemned and sold as
hereinafter provided.

212. Any sheriff, constable or commissioned militia officer of
Anna Arundel county, who shall be satisfied, either from his own
view or from information received from any other person, on
oath, that any person or persons have violated any of the pro-
visions of the last preceding section, shall arrest and take into
his custody the person or persons so offending, and the boatmen
found on board or belonging to the boat or float employed to
convey any or all of such offenders to said county for the purpose
of shooting at or killing wild ducks or wild fowl of any de-
scription ; and he shall seize and take into his possession the said
boat or craft, and all the appurtenances to the same belonging,
and all the articles declared forfeited as aforesaid.

213. And the said officer shall take the person or persons so
arrested before some justice of the peace of the county,. and
present before such justice the breach of law committed.

214. And the justice of the peace shall take cognizance of the
offence, and shall docket a case, in the name of the State, against
each person in the custody of the officers.