FISH AND FISHERIES. 1461

or device. And any person or persons, corporation or corporations violating
any of the provisions of this Section shall, upon conviction thereof before a
Justice of the Peace of any County of this State most accessible be fined the
sum of not less than one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars, and
shall also forfeit said net or nets together with the boats and tackle used in
violation of this Section, providing that the party feeling aggrieved shall
have the right of appeal is 1 in other cases tried before Justices of the
Peace, and provided further that in case of appeal, the person appealing
shall give to the State of Maryland a good and sufficient bond, covering
double the amount of fine and forfeiture, so as to secure to the State the
amount of the fine and forfeiture, in case he does not prosecute his appeal
with effect, and be it further provided, that any person, persons, corpora-
tion or corporations, violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be
subject to the provisions of Sections 135, 136 and 138 of'this Article so far
as the same are applicable hereto.

An. Code, sec. 115. 1904, sec. 106. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 95. 1912, ch. 699.

134. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of sections 127 to
137, inclusive, of this article, by the use of any pound net, fyke net, haul
seine or other contrivances now known or hereafter invented, in the taking
or catching of fish, shall, on conviction thereof before some justice of the
peace of any county of this State most accessible, forfeit said pound net,
fyke net, haul seine or other contrivances, now used or hereafter invented for
taking fish, together with all boats, vessels and tackle used in the violation
of any of said sections, or fined a sum not less than fifty dollars and not,
more than one hundred dollars, or to be subject to both fine and forfeiture,
in the discretion of the justice of the peace trying the case; provided the
person feeling aggrieved shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court
for said county, under the provisions of section 132.

An. Code, sec. 116. 1904, sec. 107. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 96.

135. It shall be the duty of the commander of the State fishery force to
command the deputies under his charge to see that the provisions of sections
127 to 138, inclusive, of this article, are not violated, and to arrest all per-
sons found violating any provisions of said sections, and take the said
offender or offenders to the nearest or most accessible justice of the peace
of any of the counties of this State, to be dealt with according to law.
As to the state fishery force, see art. 72, sec. 36, et seq.; also art. 72, sec. 81.

An. Code, sec. 117. 1904, sec. 108. 1896, ch. 441, sec. 97.

136. All fines collected by the justices of the peace, under the provisions
of sections 127 to 138, inclusive, of this article, shall, within ten days there-
after, be paid to the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which the
justice of the peace may reside, and by the said clerk to be paid into the
treasury of the State, to be credited to the " Oyster Fund," and that the
provisions of these sections of the sub-title " Chesapeake Bay " shall not
apply in any sense to any of the tributaries of the Chesapeake bay.

1 Evidently a typographical error in the act.