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used in fishing, shall be seized; and upon conviction	Violating
thereof, before any justice of the peace for Somerset
county, shall be lined not less than fifty nor more
than two hundred dollars ; one-half of said fine to go
to the officer making the arrest, and the other half
to the school fund of said county.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in default of the
payment of the fine provided in the second section
of this act, the said boat or boats, seines and mate-	In default of
rials used in fishing, the same so seized, shall be con-	payment.
demned and sold to pay said fine and costs, after giving
ten days' notice thereof by hand bills posted near the
place of seizure, and if the owner or owners of any
property so seized shall be unknown, or shall make
his escape, or shall fail to appear within five days after
such seizure, the said property shall be condemned
and sold as is hereinbefore provided.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 384.

AN ACT to amend the act of January session,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter fifty-
four, entitled an act to exempt all that portion of
the waters of Chesapeake Bay lying northward of
a certain line therein described, from the opera-
tion and effects of sections one and three, of
article ninety-eight, of the Code of Public General
Laws, title " Wild-Fowl," and to enact other sec-
tions, to be in force and operation in, on and over
said waters, by repealing section sixteen of said
act, and amending and re-enacting the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section sixteen, of the act of Jan-