SOMERSET COUNTY. 4455

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 186. 1880, ch. 445.

262. It shall not be lawful for any person to employ any canoe, boat
or vessel, in catching or taking oysters with scoop, scrape, drag or dredge,
or any similar instrument, within the waters of Pocomoke sound, in.
Somerset county ; nor shall any person take or catch oysters for sale within
said waters otherwise than with tongs, as restricted and regulated by the
provisions of the general oyster law in force in this State.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 187. 1880, ch. 445.

263. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding section shall
be fined in a sum not less than seventy-five dollars nor more than one
hundred and fifty dollars for each and every offense, and shall stand
committed to the county jail until such fine and the costs of suit are paid.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 188. 1880, ch. 445.

264. On information made under oath, of any violation of the pro-
visions of said section, to any justice of the peace of Somerset county, he
shall forthwith issue his warrant to the sheriff or any constable of said
county, requiring said officer to proceed forthwith to arrest the party
alleged to have been engaged in such violation, and bring him before
Said justice at once for trial, and upon conviction the offender shall be
fined as required by the preceding section.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 189. 1880, ch. 445.

265. The said justice of the peace shall either give the case an imme-
diate hearing, or at the instance of the party charged, shall appoint some
early day, within the next five days thereafter, to hear the case; the party
charged giving such good and sufficient bail as said justice shall require
for his appearance; and any party feeling himself aggrieved by any
conviction or judgment of said justice, shall have the right to appeal to
the circuit court for said county, which shall hear and determine the
same as other cases on appeal.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 190. 1S78, ch. 373.

266. It shall be unlawful to take or catch oysters with scoops, drags
or dredges, or such like instruments, in the waters of the Wicomico river
in Somerset county, on the east side of a straight line from the mouth of
Rock creek to Clay Island lighthouse; and any person violating this section
shall be liable to be tried before any justice of the peace, upon being
arrested on warrant from any justice of the peace of said county, and
upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more
than fifty dollars for every such offense, and shall also forfeit the boat
or vessel used or employed in such violation of this section; and the said
boat or vessel so forfeited and condemned, shall be sold by the officer
making the seizure or arrests, upon ten days' notice of such sale, for cash,
together with the sails and furniture of said boat or vessel, and the imple-
ments on board said boat used in such illegal taking of oysters; and
one-half the proceeds of said sale shall be paid to the informer and