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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

transported, and may sell any brook trout and the

spawn of brook trout at any time, and common car-

riers may transport them, and dealers may sell them

on condition that the packages thereof so transported,
are accompanied by a certificate from a justice of the

peace, certifying that such trout are sent by the owner

or owners or agents of parties so engaged in fish

culture; and such person or company may take, in

any way and at any time, upon the premises of any

person, under permission of the owners thereof,

brook trout to be kept and used for artificial propaga-

tion only, and for no other purpose.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That violation of any of

Violation.

the provisions of this act contained, may be prose-

cuted by any citizen of the county in which said

violation shall take place, before any justice of the

peace, or Circuit Court for said county, the informer

to be a competent witness ; funds paid as penalties

shall be equally divided between the informer and

the Public School Commissioners of the county, for

the beneh't of the public schools in the district where

the offence is committed.

Approved, April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 254.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments,

section three of an act passed at January session,

eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter three hun-

dred and four, entitled an act to repeal sections one

and two, of an act passed at January session, eighteen

hundred and sixty-eight, chapter two hundred and

sixty-six, entitled a supplement to the act passed

January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,

chapter one hundred and sixteen, entitled an act

to incorporate the Wicomico and Pocomoke Rail

Road Company, with amendments, passed at De-

cember session, eighteen hundred and forty-seven,

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section three, of the act passed at