1060 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

case, or to the sheriff of said county, or his deputy, and by them
shall be paid into the public school fund of said county; and a
failure by the said justice, sheriff or his deputy to pay said fine
within thirty days after receipt of the same, to the public school
fund, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall subject said
justice, sheriff or deputy, to a fine double the amount received by
them, to be recovered by indictment or suit.

1886, ch. 206.

260. The school commissioners, before the fifteenth day of
September of each year, shall furnish to the clerk of the circuit
court the requisite number of printed blank licenses in such form,
as directed by section 255, and take his receipt for the same; and
the clerk shall return to the said school commissioners at the end
of the scraping season all the blank printed licenses not issued to
scrapers; he shall be allowed as a fee for each license the sum of
fifty cents, and shall pay the residue of the license money into
the public school fund of said county, quarterly, at the same
time delivering to said commissioners an itemized statement of
each license issued, containing the name of the boat, tonnage
and owner.

Ibid.

261. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, constable or officer to
the State fishery force, to arrest any person and to seize any boat
found violating 'any of the provisions of sections 253 to 262,
inclusive, and take them at once before a justice of the peace of
said county for an immediate hearing, or before a judge having
criminal jurisdiction, to be dealt with according to law; and any
person who shall resist any officer authorized under any of said
sections to make arrests, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and
upon indictment and conviction thereof in any court having
jurisdiction, shall be imprisoned in the house of correction not
less than six months nor more than one year, in the discretion of
the court; the parties tried and acquitted shall have the cost of
such trial paid by the treasurer of said county.

Ibid.

262. For all violations of sections 253 to 262, inclusive, the
owner of the boat shall be liable to the same monied fines and