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boat or vessel, whenever and wherever such person, canoe, boat or vessel
shall be found violating or being used in violating any of the provisions
of this sub-title of this Article, and bring the offender before some Justice
of the Peace or Judge of the Circuit Court for said county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 189. 1920 Code, sec. 232.

182. All boats, vessels or other property condemned under the provi-
sions of this sub-title of this article, shall be sold by the sheriff or some
constable of said county at public sale, after giving twenty days' notice
of the time and place of such sale, by advertisements posted in at least two
public places in the vicinity of said sale, to the highest bidder for cash;
and the boat, tackle and implements used by the party violating any of the
provisions of this sub-title of this article, shall be seized and taken in
possession by the said constable or sheriff, and in default of payment of
the fine and costs aforesaid, shall be sold at public sale as hereinafter pro-
vided, and as much of the proceeds of said sale as may be necessary, ap-
plied to the payment of all fines and costs and other expenses incurred
under this sub-title of this article,

P. L. L, 1888, Art. 24, sec. 190. 1920 Code, sec. 233.

183. Any party against whom any justice of the peace may render a
judgment under this sub-title of this article, either to pay a fine or of con-
demnation of property, may, at any time, within ten days from the rendi-
tion of such judgment, appeal from such judgment to the Circuit Court
for said county, but no execution or sale shall be stayed unless the party
appealing shall give bond with approved security to the State of Maryland
in double the value of the property condemned or of the fine imposed, as
the case may be, with condition to prosecute such appeal with effect, and
to pay the value of the property condemned and fine imposed, and all
costs attending such proceedings in case such judgment shall be affirmed.
No person shall be accepted as such security unless he resides in said
county, and shall make oath or affirmation, that he is worth double the
value of the property condemned.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 191. 1920 Code, sec. 234.

184. If any person on board any canoe, boat or vessel engaged in vio-
lating any of the provisions of this sub-title of this article, shall abandon
the said canoe, boat or vessel, and flee so as to escape arrest, the officer
endeavoring to make such arrest shall seize such canoe, boat or vessel, and
give information of such seizure to some justice of the peace or judge of
the Circuit Court for said county; and it shall be the duty of the said
justice of the peace or judge to docket a case in the name of the State
against the said canoe, boat or vessel, and to proceed without delay with
the trial of the same, and if there is sufficient proof that said canoe, boat
or vessel has been used or employed in violating any of the provisions of
this sub-title of this article, the said justice of the peace or judge shall
either render a judgment of condemnation against the said canoe, boat or
vessel, her tackle and furniture on board at the time of, or fine the said