ART. 23. ] WORCESTER COUNTY.

penalties and costs be not forthwith paid, all the pro-
perty so seized shall be sold, and the proceeds accounted
for as if it were the property of the defendant seized,

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under execution for the satisfaction of the judgment.
96. FOP the seizure and safe keeping of any vessel
or boat with the equipments thereof, under the pro-
visions of this act, the officer effecting the same shall
receive a fee of twenty dollars, to be taxed in the cost,
and the offender to be committed to the county jail
until all penalties, costs, charges and fees are paid and

Ibid s 7.
Fee of officer.

the judgments against him fully satisfied.
97. The informer, if there be one, shall be entitled to
a moiety of any fine or forfeiture imposed by this act..

Ibid. s. 8
Moiety of fine
to informer.

98. Where a proceeding is initiated for any viola-
tion of this act or any section thereof, on affidavit of
such violation, a justice of the peace may issue his

Ibid s. 9.
Affidavit.

warrant for the apprehension of the offender, and it
shall not be necessary therein to name the offender, the
vessel or boat in his employment, and when the penalty
is incurred by reason of the defendant being a non-
resident, the burthen of proof as to his residence shall
be upon him.

Warrant of
arrest.

99. If any person shall take, steal or sell planted
oysters of another, knowing them to be such, from any
of the waters in this act mentioned, he shall, upon

Ibid s. 10.
Taking, &c,
oysters of ano-
ther.

conviction in said court, be fined not less than fifty nor
nor more than one hundred dollars, and may at the
discretion of the court be confined in jail not less than
one nor more than six months.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

Penalty.

See the act of 1868, c. 406, relating to taking oysters, &c., under
Laws, Art. LXXI, Oysters.

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