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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

than thirty dollars, one-third to the informer, one-

third to the constable making the arrest, and the

balance to the Treasurer of the Board of County

School Commissioners, for school purposes, provided,

that any person or persons so offending, on conviction

thereof, as aforesaid, who shall refuse or fail to pay

said tine imposed, and the cost thereon, such person

or persons shall be imprisoned in the county jail

where the act shall be committed, for not less than

ten nor more than twenty days.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any person or per-

sons who may feel himself or themselves aggrieved by

any judgment, rendered by a justice of the peace,

under the provisions of this act, shall have the right

Appeals

to appeal to the Circuit Court of the county, where

the act was committed, upon the conditions and sub-

ject to the regulations, now provided by the general

law regulating appeals from justices of the peace, but
execution of the judgment of the justice of the peace

shall not be stayed, unless the party appealing, shall

Give bond

give bond to the State for double the amount of fine-

imppsed, with security approved by the justice ren-

dering the judgment, with condition to prosecute his-

appeal with effect, or to pay the fine imposed with

all costs.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage, and continue in

In force

force until the first day of April, eighteen hundred

and seventy-six.

Approved, March 19, 1874.