1028 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

evidence; and the plaintiff in each and every suit shall be non-
suited and mulcted in costs, whenever it shall be clearly proven
by legal and competent testimony that the lands whereon the-
trespass shall be alleged to have been done or committed were
not enclosed according to law.

FERRIES.

1880, ch. 236.

172. It shall not be lawful for the keeper of any public ferry,
and the ferry at Harrison, to charge any citizen of the county, or
any citizen of any other county in this State, or of the city of
Baltimore, who is now assessed with real estate in Dorchester
county, with toll or passage money for crossing said ferries.

FISH.

1874, ch. 466.

173. It shall not be lawful for any persons, with the exception
of bona fide resident voters of Dorchester county, and they shall
first obtain permission of the occupants or owners of lands border-
ing on said waters of said county, to take or catch fish in the
waters of said county with seines with meshes of less size than
five inches square.

Ibid.

174. It shall not be lawful for any person to empty his seines
in water less than twelve inches deep; and all persons violating
the preceding section, upon conviction thereof before a justice of
the peace in the county, shall be fined not less than five-nor more
than fifty dollars, or shall be subject to a forfeit of the seine and
the boat and appurtenances thereto belonging, in the discretion
of the said justice.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 10, sec. 115.

175. Any justice of the peace of said county may issue his
warrant, directed to the sheriff or any constable of the county,
against any person offending against any of the provisions of the
two preceding sections, and upon proof of his guilt shall pro-
nounce judgment as provided in the preceding section; and shall
direct the sheriff or constable to sell the seine, boat and appurte-