4460 ARTICLE 20.

be sold by the sheriff or constables to the highest bidder for cash, after
twenty days' notice of time and place and terms of sale, inserted at least
three times in some newspaper in Somerset county.

1S90, ch. 353, sec. 3.

282. On information under oath of any violation of the provisions of
this act to any justice of the peace for Somerset county, the said justices
shall forthwith issue his warrant to the sheriff or any constable of said
county, requiring the officer to whom the said writ shall be directed to
summon a posse comitatus if necessary, and proceed at once to arrest the
party or parties alleged to have been engaged in violating any of the pro-
visions of this act, and forthwith bring the offender or offenders before-
some justice of the peace for Somerset county for a hearing, and if the
party or parties accused or the State's Attorney shall not claim a jury
trial, it shall be the duty of the said justice of the peace to give the case
an immediate hearing, or at the instance of the party or parties charged
with a violation of this act, shall appoint some early day within the next
seven days thereafter to hear the case, the party or parties charged, giving
such good and sufficient bail as said justice shall require for his or their
appearance at the trial, and on conviction of the offender or offenders the
said justice shall fine such person or persons in a sum not less than sev-
enty-five dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars and costs in
each and every case, and shall have power to commit to the jail of said
county such offender or offenders so convicted until such fine or fines so
imposed and cost shall be fully paid and satisfied, subject to an appeal
in all cases to the circuit court for Somerset county, from any judgment,
or conviction which may be rendered by said justice of the peace.

1890, ch. 353, sec. 4.

283. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, constable and officers of the
State fishery force, to arrest any person or persons found violating any of
the provisions of this act, and bring the said person or persons before a
justice of the peace in said county to be dealt with as herein provided.

1890, ch. 353, sec. 5.

284. All fines accruing from the enforcement of this act shall be paid
one-half to the informer in each and every case, and one-half to the sec-
retary and treasurer of the school board of Somerset county for the use
of the public schools of said county.

1896, ch. 260, sec. 1.

285. It shall be unlawful for any person, or body corporate, to ran
off, stake off, survey, locate, or appropriate within the limits of Somerset
county, any natural bar or bed, or any part thereof where oysters have
grown, or do grow in sufficient quantities to be profitable to persons who
take oysters with scrapes, dredge or tongs.