ART. 22. ] WORCESTER COUNTY. 435

It is further enacted that the seven commissioners now in office shall remain and
continue to be commissioners of Snow Hill until the first election under this act,
and until their successors are elected and qualified.

Approved April 4, 1870.

STATE'S ATTORNEY.

1870, c. 350 repeals and re-enacts 1864, c. 94 [Sup. 1861-7, p. 651] as follows:

166. The county commissioners of Worcester county arc required to allow to, and levy for the use of the state's attorney for Worcester county, in all cases which may be hereafter tried by him in said county, the fees following, to wit: In every case of murder, arson or rape, twenty dollars; in every case of felony, other than murder, arson or rape, ten dollars j in every case of misdemeanor, punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, five dollars; and in all other misdemean- ors, three dollars and thirty-three and one-third of a

1870, c. 350. Allowance in trial cases.

cent; provided, that this act shall not take effect until the expiration of the term of the present state's attor- ney for Worcester county, said fees to be in addition to the regular appearance fees now allowed by law. Approved April 4, 1870.

Proviso.

SYNAPUXENT BAY.

1870, c. 190 repeals section 1 of 1868, c. 442, and re-enacts the same to read as follows:

167. If any person or persons shall haul or fish with any seine or seines over one hundred fathoms in length in Synapuxent bay or its tributaries, or in any of the bays or their tributaries, on the eastern side of Wor- cester county above the line of Virginia, he or they	1870, c. 190, s. 2. Size of seines limited.
shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dol- lars, for the first offence, and two hundred dollars for every subsequent offence, with all costs accruing in the prosecution of such offender or offenders. Approved and in force April 4, 1870.	Penalty for hauling larger semes.