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number of printed blank licenses in such form as directed by Section
425, and take his receipt for the same: and the clerk shall return to the
said School Commissioners at the end of the scraping season all the blank
printed licenses not issued to scrapers: he shall be allowed as a fee for
each license the sum of fifty cents, and shall pay the residue of the license
money into the public school fund of said county, quarterly, at the same
time delivering to said Commissioners an itemized statement of each
license issued, containing the name of the boat, tonnage and owner.

Jones v. State, 68 Md. 613. Smith v. School Commissioners, 81 Md. 514.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, se.c. 261. 1886, ch. 206.

431. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, constable or officer to the State
fishery force, to arrest any person and to seize any boat found violating
any of the provisions of Sections 423 to 432, inclusive, and take them at
once before a justice of the peace of said county for an immediate hearing,
or before a judge having criminal jurisdiction, to be dealt with according
to law; and any person who shall resist any officer authorized under any
of said sections to make arrests, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and
upon indictment and conviction thereof in any court having jurisdiction,
shall be imprisoned in the House of Correction not less than six months
nor more than one year, in the discretion of the court; the parties tried
and acquitted shall have the cost of such trial paid by the treasurer of said

county.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 262. 1886, ch. 206.

432. For all violations of Sections 423 to 432, inclusive, the owner

of the boat shall be liable to the same monied fines and cost imposed upon
the person charged with said violation; the boat shall be held by the
judge or justice before whom the party charged with the violation, is
taken for hearing or trial; the justice shall hear and determine any

charge against the owner of said boat; if a non-resident of the county,
or if the offense has been committed with the knowledge and consent of
the owner, he shall adjudge and impose a fine, as aforesaid, upon said
owner, and hold the boat for twenty days, if said fine and cost are not
sooner paid, at the end of which time he shall direct and authorize the
sheriff or deputy sheriff of said county, after having given ten days'
public notice in an advertisement in some newspaper printed in Cam-
bridge, and by handbills, to sell said boat for cash to the highest bidder,
and deduct the fine and all the costs, including three per cent, commissions
for making the sale, and par over the balance to the owner of said
boat or lien creditors, according to their legal rights thereto, as adjusted
by the auditor of said circuit court.

Jones v. State, 68 Md. 613.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 263. 1888. ch. 394.

433. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or employ any boat or
canoe licensed to take oysters with rakes and tongs, in the waters of
Dorchester, Talbot, Queen Anne's and Anne Arundel Counties, in taking