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OYSTERS. [ART. 71.

shall thereupon be had as directed in all cases of seizure
under other sections of this article.

Ibid. s. 15.
Resisting
arrest.

14. Any person resisting an officer or other person
authorized to make arrest and seizure under this arti-
cle, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon in-
dictment and conviction thereof in any court of com-

Penalty.

petent jurisdiction, shall pay a fine of not less than
fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or be impri-
soned in the county jail, where the offense may be
tried, not less than one month nor more than one year.

Ibid. s. 16.
Where unlaw-
ful to take
oysters.

15. It shall be unlawful for any owner, master, em-
ployee or other person to use or employ any boat or
vessel licensed under this article, to take or catch
oysters with scoops, scrapes, drag or dredge, in taking
or catching oysters in any river, creek, cove, inlet, bay
or sound within the limits of any county of this state,
or on any oyster bed, bar or rock, on or about Talley's
Point, Sandy Point, Hackett's Point, Thomas' Point,
the Three Sisters, Holland's Point Bar, Plum Point,
and Parker's Creek on the western side of Chesapeake
Bay, and Swan Point on the eastern side of said bay,
and Eastern Bay, inside of a line drawn from Kent
Point to Poplar Island, and any owner, master, em-
ployee or other person so offending, shall -upon convic-
tion thereof before any justice of the peace or judge of

Penalty.

any circuit court for any county be subject to the same
fines and penalties, and the boat or vessel so used or
employed, be liable to seizure and forfeiture as pro-
vided in section six of this article, but this section nor
any in this article shall be construed as a repeal of sec-
tions ninety-four to one hundred and one inclusive, of
article nineteen of the Code of Public Local Laws for

Somerset
county.

Somerset county, relating to oysters.

Ibid s. 17.
Property con-
demned and
sold.

16. All boats, vessels or other property condemned
under the provisions of this article, shall be sold by
the sheriff of the county where such boat, vessel or
other property may be condemned at public sale, after

Notice.

giving twenty days' notice of the time and place of such
sale by advertisement in one or more newspapers pub-
lished in the county where such condemnation may be