ART. 10.] OYSTERS—RECORDS BURNED. 1061

cost imposed upon the person charged with said violation; the

boat shall be held by the judge or justice before whom the party

charged with the violation, is taken for hearing or trial; the justice

shall hear and determine any charge against the owner of said
boat; if a non-resident of the county, or if the offence has been
committed with the knowledge and consent of the owner, he shall
adjudge and impose a fine, as aforesaid, upon said owner, and
hold the boat for twenty days, if said fine and cost are not sooner
paid, at the end of which time he shall direct and authorize the
sheriff or deputy sheriff of said county, after having given ten

days' public notice in an advertisement in some newspaper printed
in Cambridge, and by handbills, to sell said boat for cash to the
highest bidder, and deduct the fine and all the costs, including
three per cent, commissions for making the sale, and pay over the
balance to the owner of said boat or lien creditors, according to
their legal rights thereto, as adjusted by the auditor of said circuit
court.

1888, ch. 894.

263. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or employ any
boat or canoe licensed to take oysters with rakes and tongs, in the

waters of Dorchester, Talbot, Queen Anne's and Anne Arundel
counties, in taking or catching oysters with any implements or
device other than ordinary rakes or tongs with wooden shafts, to
be used entirely by hand, and without any ropes or hoisting gear
whatever. Any person violating the provisions of this section
shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in the public general
laws, article 72, title " Oysters," section 18, for taking oysters with
Jakes or tongs without license.

RECORDS BURNED.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 10, sec. 152.

264. The records, or a copy thereof, of all deeds, wills or other
papers or documents recorded under the laws passed to remedy
the evils arising from the loss and destruction of papers and
records occasioned by burning the court house of Dorchester
county, shall have the same effect as evidence or otherwise as the
original records or copies thereof would have had if the same had
not been burned or destroyed.