ART. 13.] WILD FOWL. 1391

session thereafter, and to pay the value of the property con-
demned and fine imposed, and all costs attending such proceed-
ings in case judgment shall be affirmed.

1882, ch. 878.

310. All articles hereinbefore enumerated, seized and con-
demned under the provisions of any of the nine preceding
sections, shall be sold by the constable or sheriff, or other officer
of the county in which such condemnation may be made, at
public sale, after giving twenty days' notice of the time and
place of such sale by advertisement in one newspaper in the
county where such condemnation may be made, and by written or
printed notice being posted up at four of the most public places
within two miles of the place of said sale, to the highest bidder
for cash; and the proceeds of such sale, after deducting all the
legal expenses of seizure, condemnation and sale, shall be divided
as follows, to wit: one-half to the informer and the other half to
the commissioners of said county, for the benefit of the school
fund of said county; if, among the articles so seized and con-
demned, there shall be a big or swivel gun, the same shall not be
sold, but shall at once be destroyed or rendered useless by the
officer in custody thereof.

1888, ch. 390.

311. No person shall at any time take, catch or trap, or
attempt to take, catch or trap, wild water-fowl, by nets of any.
kind, within the Chesapeake bay or any of its tributaries within
Harford, Cecil or Baltimore counties, or within any of the waters
of said bay lying northward of a line drawn westerly from the
most southerly point of Cecil county bordering on said bay, to
the most southerly point of Baltimore county bordering on said
bay.

Ibid.

312. Any person violating any of the provisions of section
311, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of
the county where such violation took place, or on indictment
before the circuit court for said county, shall pay a fine of not
less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, in the discre-
tion of said justice or court, and in default of payment of such
fine shall be forthwith committed to the county jail for the