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WILD FOWL AND GAME. [ART. 15.

the members of said board of special police shall be for two years
from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and
all vacancies that may occur from the expiration of term, or by
removal from Harford or Cecil counties, or death, or conviction of
malfeasance in office, or from any other cause, in the said board of
special police, shall be filled by the county commissioners of the

Vacancies.

county wherein such vacancies may occur; also, provided, that the
said board of special police shall always consist of two members
from Harford county and one from Cecil county.

1872, c 54, s 17.
Appeal from
judgment of
justice.

32. Any party or parties against whom any justice of the peace
may render a judgment under this act, either to pay a fine or of con-
demnation of property, may at any time within ten days from the
rendition of such judgment, appeal from such judgment to the Cir-
cuit Court of the county wherein the same may have been rendered;
but no execution or sale shall be stayed, unless the party appealing
shall give bond, with two sufficient securities, to be approved of by
the justice, 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 to the Circuit
Court at its next session thereafter, and to pay the value of the prop-
erty condemned and fine imposed, and all costs attending such pro-
ceedings, in case judgment shall be confirmed.

Id s 18
Person violat-
ing subject to
fine.

33, If any person shall violate any of the provisions of this act
he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable for
the fine imposed for such violation, and the same may be recovered
by action of debt, in the name of the State, before a justice of the
peace of either Harford, Kent, or Cecil county, or by indictment
in the Circuit Court of either of said counties; and when any per-
son is convicted of the violation of any of the provisions of this

Refusing to pay
fine, to be com-
mitted.

act, and refuses or neglects to pay the fine for which judgment is
given against him, he shall be committed to the county jail for a
period of time not less than forty and not more than forty days, but
the party or parties so committed to be released on the payment of
the fine, costs, and jail expenses.

Id s 19
For what time
proportionate
sum may be paid
for license

34. For the time intervening between the time of the passage
of this act and the thirty-first day of March next ensuing, each per-
son applying for a license for a sink-box, or for a sneak-boat, shall
pay for each respectively a proportionate sum for said time, or for
any shorter time.

Id s 20
What justices
and courts to
have concurrent
jurisdiction

35. The justices of the peace for Harford, Kent, and for Cecil
county, and the Circuit Courts of said counties, shall have concur-
rent jurisdiction in all cases that may arise under the provisions of

Person arrested
may be tried in
either county.

this act; and any person or persons arrested on the waters of the
Chesapeake bay, northward of the line named and described in the
first section of this act, for a violation of any of its provisions, may
be conveyed to either Harford, Kent, or Cecil county, for trial, and
there tried before the proper tribunal.

1878, c 269
Time when per-

36. No person holding a license to gun for or after wild water-