4462 ARTICLE 20.

violation of the provisions of this section; and if after trial the said jus-
tice shall find such party guilty of a violation of the provisions of this
section, it shall be the duty of the said justice to declare such oyster lot
forfeited, and to impose the costs of the prosecution in each case where
the lot may be forfeited upon the defendant; provided, that an appeal may
be taken in all such cases from the judgment of said justice of the peace
to the Circuit Court for Somerset County; and, provided further, that all
prosecutions for violations of this section shall be begun within twelve
months after the passage of this Act.*

1892, ch. 444, sec. 1.

290. The County Commissioners of Somerset County are hereby au-
thorized and required to have placed upon and keep on the several lines
to which it may be lawful to use scoops, scrapes, and dredges or any similar
instrument, to take or catch oysters in the waters of Annamessex, Monokin
and Wicomico Rivers in Somerset County, such buoys or other marks as
may be necessary to plainly designate said several lines, the said buoys or
marks to be placed on said several lines as now established by Article
twenty of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Somerset County," sub-
title "Oysters."

1892, ch. 444, sec. 2.

291. The said county commissioners are hereby authorized to levy
upon the assessable property of Somerset County such sum or sums not
exceeding one, hundred and fifty dollars as may be necessary for properly
marking said several lines.

1892, ch, 444, sec. 3.

292. Said buoys or other marks being once placed on said several lines
it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to remove or deface the
same or any one of them, and any person or persons convicted of removing
or defacing, or of being concerned in removing or defacing any one of
said buoys or other marks so placed to designate said lines, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and fined by any justice of the peace of the State of
Maryland in and for Somerset County, or any judge of the Circuit Court
for Somerset County, before whom the offender may be brought, and
tried, a sum not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars and be
committed to the county jail for Somerset County until said fines and
costs are paid.

CLAMS.

1916, oh 179, sec. 1.

293. It shall be unlawful for any person not a resident of Somerset
County, to take or catch clams within the waters of said County, and no
resident of Somerset County shall take or catch clams, with patent tongs,

*Sec. 3, ch. 121, 1906. repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.