CALVERT COUNTY. 1499

OUT PENSIONERS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 106. 1860, Art. 5, sec. 51. 1890, ch. 50.

223. The County Commissioners may keep as many out pensioners,
and allow them such pensions as they may think proper, not exceeding
twenty dollars in any one case, except in such cases of extreme poverty
and distress, and inability to labor, when they may in their discretion,
allow a pension of forty dollars, and no out pensioners shall be kept at
the expense of the county at a sum exceeding twenty dollars, unless the
County Commissioners are advised in writing so to do by taxpayers, resi-
dents of the district of the applicant, whose aggregate sum of assessable
property, as appears by the assessment books of the county exceeds the
sum of twenty thousand dollars, and no out pensioner whatever shall be
kept at the expense of the county, unless the said Commissioners are ad-
vised in writing so to do by taxpayers, residents of the district of the
applicant, whose aggregate sum of assessable property, as appears by the
assessment books of the county to exceed in value the sum of ten thousand
dollars, and no levy whatever shall be made for out pensioners, and no
sum or sums paid them after the passage of this act, unless the provi-
sions hereof are complied with, and the requirements hereof shall apply
to each and every levy, and the recommendations herein required shall be
preserved in the office of said Commissioners.*

OYSTERS,+

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 99. 1870, ch. 188.

224. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch oysters for sale in
the waters of Saint Leonard's Creek, Island Creek and Battle Creek, in
Calvert County, except persons who have imbedded or planted, or who
may hereafter imbed or plant oysters in said waters.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 100. 1870, ch. 188.

225. On information given under oath, of any violation of the pre-
ceding section, to any justice of the peace of Calvert County, he shall
forthwith issue his warrant, directed to the sheriff or any constable or
military officer, requiring cither of them to whom it may be directed, to
summon the posse comitatus, if necessary, and proceed forthwith to arrest
the parties alleged to have been engaged in violating said section, and to
seize and take possession of any canoe, boat or vessel, together with all
their tackle and apparel, and any article on said boat at the time belong-
ing to said parties, and used by them in such violation.

P. L. L, 1888, Art. 5, sec. 101. 1870, ch. 188.

226. The sheriff, constable or military officer making such arrest shall
forthwith bring the offenders before some justic of the peace of the county

*The title of ch. 50, 1890, provides for repeal of the section, but the Act itself
repeals and re-enacts the section.
+See Annotated Code of Md., Art. 72.