ART. 19.] OYSTERS. 1755

1886, ch. 300.

88. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding sec-
tion shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars, and be sentenced to the house of correction
for not less than six months for each and every offence.

Ibid.

89. On information made under oath, of any violation of th&
provisions of section 87, to any justice of the peace for St. Mary's
county, he shall forthwith issue his warrant to the sheriff, or any
constable of said county, requiring said officer to proceed forth-
with to arrest the party alleged to have been engaged in the
violation of said section, and bring him before said justice at
once for trial, and upon conviction, the offender shall be fined
and punished as required by the preceding section.

Ibid

90. The said justice of the peace shall either give the case an
immediate hearing, or at the instance of the party shall appoint
some early day within the next five days thereafter, to hear the
case; the party charged with violation of section 87 giving such
good and sufficient security as said justice shall require for his
appearance; and any person feeling himself aggrieved by any
conviction or judgment of said justice, shall have the right to
appeal to the circuit court for St. Mary's county, which shall hear
and determine the same as other cases on appeal.

Ibid.

91. It shall not be lawful for any person not a citizen of St.
Mary's county to take or catch oysters with tongs or any other
instrument in any of the tributaries of the Potomac river adjacent
to the shores of St. Mary's county/without a license; and every
applicant for such license to use any canoe or other boat in catch-
ing oysters with rakes or tongs, shall be required to make oath
or affirmation before the clerk of the circuit court, or before some
justice of the peace for St. Mary's county, upon whose certificate
of the taking of such oath or affirmation, the said clerk of the
court shall issue such license, stating that the applicant for the
license has been a resident and citizen of St. Mary's county for