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up at the court-house door of said county; the proceeds of said sale, after
paying the costs of proceedings had, shall go, one-fourth to the sheriff or

constable, one-fourth to the informer, and the remaining half to the
County Commissioners, for public road purposes'.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 105. 1878, ch. 471.

230. Any party against whom a justice of the peace shall have ren-
dered judgment under the provisions of the preceding section, may, at
any time within ten days from the rendition thereof, appeal from such
judgment to the Circuit Court for Calvert County or St. Mary's County;
but no execution or sale shall be stayed unless the party appealing shall
give bond to the State of Maryland in double the amount of the fine im-
posed or value of the property condemned, with surety to be approved
by said justice, and with condition to prosecute such appeal with effect,
and to pay the parties entitled to the same the value of the property con-
demned or amount of fine imposed, and all costs in case such judgment
shall be affirmed; and in all cases of appeal each party shall be entitled
to trial by jury.

1914, ch. 232, sec. 1.

231. It shall not be lawful for any person to take or catch oysters for
sale with rakes, tongs or any other instruments whatsoever in the waters
of Mill Creek, Back Creek, or St. John's Creek, in Calvert County, ex-

cept from lands in said waters located and appropriated or which may
hereafter be located and appropriated by virtue of any Act or Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, authorizing the location and appropria-
tion thereof for the purpose of protecting, depositing, bedding or sowing
oysters.

1914, ch. 232, sec. 2.

232. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding section shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction before a Justice
of the Peace or the Circuit Court for Calvert County, shall pay a fine of
not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every

offense, and shall stand committed to the County Jail until fine and costs
are fully paid; one-half of all fines under this Act to be paid to the
informer and one-half to be paid to the School Commissioners of Calvert
County for the benefit of the public schools therein.

1914, ch. 232, sec. 3.

233. For the purpose of this Act a line drawn from the steamboat
wharf at Solomon's Island and running in a northeasterly direction to
lower Ship Point, on Rousby Hall farm, shall be the dividing line between
the mouth of Mill Creek and the Patuxent River.

RAILROADS.

1924, ch. 596, sec. 1. 1927, Res. 26.

234. The County Commissioners of Calvert County be and they are
hereby authorized and directed, in the name of and for said Calvert