ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 651

Sec. 15. And be it enacted, That any person re- sisting any officer or other person authorized to make arrest and seizure under this Article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction thereof, in any Circuit Court hav- ing jurisdiction, shall be fined not Jess than fifty dollars, or more than five hundred dollars, or be	Misdemeanor.
imprisoned in the Jail of the county wherein the case is tried not less than one month nor more than one year. Sec. 16. And be if, enacted, That it shall be un- lawful for any owner, master, employee or other person, to use or employ any boat or vessel li- censed under this Article, to take or catch Oysters with scoops, scrapes, drag or dredge, or any similar instrument, in taking or catching Oysters	Imprisoned.
in any river, creek, cove, inlet, bay or sound within the limits of any county or lying between two or more counties of this State, or on any Oyster-bed, bar or rock within one and a half miles of Talley's Point, Sandy Point, Hackett's Point, Thomas' Point, the Three Sisters, Holland's Point Bar, or on or about Plum Point and Park- er's creek, on the western side of Chesapeake Bay, and Swan Point on the eastern side of said bay, and Eastern bay, inside of a line drawn from the south-west extremity of Kent Point to north-east extremity of Poplar Island; and any owner, mas- ter, employee or other person so offending, shall, upon conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace, or any Judge of any Circuit Court for any county, be subject to the same fines and penalties, and the boat or vessel so used or employed be	Limits.
liable to seizure and forfeiture, as provided in sec- tion six of this Article; but neither this section, nor any in this Article shall be construed as a re- peal of sections ninety-four to one hundred and one, inclusive, of Article nineteen, of the Code of Public Local Laws for Somerset county, relating to Oysters.	Liable to seizure.
Sec. 17. And be it enacted, That all boats, ves- sels, or other property condemned under the pro- visions of this Article, shall be sold by the Sheriff of the county wherein such boat, vessel, or other property may have been condemned, at public gale, to the highest bidder for cash, after giving	Sold at pub- lic sale.