ART. 72.] OYSTERS—DREDGING——OFFENDERS 1037

1886, ch. 296, sec. 6.

5. Before granting such license the comptroller shall receive
for it from the applicant at the rate of three dollars per ton for
every ton the boat may measure, and licenses may be issued after
the beginning of the oyster season, at the rate of fifty cents per
ton per month, for the remainder of the season, and the license
shall be exhibited whenever called for by any officer of this State
Ibid, sec. 7.

6. Any master or person in charge of any vessel who shall
violate any of the provisions of the preceding sections by taking
oysters unlawfully, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon indictment and conviction in any circuit court in this State,
or in the criminal court of Baltimore, before which such case is
tried, shall be sentenced to the house of correction for a term not
less than three months nor more than one year; and the boat or
vessel used in such violation, together with the papers, furniture
and tackle on board of said boat or vessel at the time of said
violation, shall be forfeited, but shall be released upon the pay-
ment of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars, and costs and expenses for each and every viola-
tion of the preceding sections, in the discretion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 8.

7. Upon information given under oath to any judge of the
circuit court or justice of the peace, of any violation of any of the
provisions of this law, he shall issue his warrant to the sheriff, or
any constable, requiring any of them to whom it may be directed
to summon a posse comitatus, if necessary, and proceed forthwith
to arrest the party or parties alleged to have been engaged in the
violation of this law, and to seize and take possession of any boat,
canoe or vessel, together with all her tackle and apparel on board
of the same, and deliver the same to the judge of the circuit
court or a justice of the peace of this State, to be dealt with
according to the provisions of sections 1-43 of this article; pro-
vided, that any justice of the peace before whom any person is.
brought charged with a violation of any of said sections of this
article, the punishment for which is imprisonment in the house
of correction, shall grant the parties charged a speedy hearing, and