1610 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 20.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 19, sec. 76.

160. Any justice may receive the fine and costs imposed
under the said section, and shall, under the penalty of two hun-
dred dollars, account for the same, except the costs and such part
thereof as the informer may be entitled to, to the county commis-
sioners, within six months thereafter.

Ibid. sec. 77.

161. No informer shall be entitled to any part of said fine
unless the offence charged shall have been proved by a disinter,
ested witness; but in such case the whole fine shall be paid to the
county commissioners.

Ibid. sec. 78.

162. Every person who shall set or be concerned in any weir
in the waters of said county, shall remove the same within sixty
days after the expiration of twelve months from the setting of
such weir.

Ibid. sec. 79.

163. No person shall cast over any oysters or oyster shells,
ballast or any other thing, upon the bottom of any harbor or an-
choring ground in said county, by which such harbor or anchor-
ing ground may be filled up, or by which vessels lying at anchor,
or the free and easy access of vessels to and from said harbor or
anchoring ground may be in any manner hindered or obstructed;
and any person so offending, upon indictment and conviction in
the circuit court, or before any justice of the peace for the county,
shall be fined not less than ten nor more than thirty dollars; and
for the second offence not less than twenty nor more than fifty
dollars, and in default of payment, shall be imprisoned not less
than three nor more than ten days; and for the third offence shall
be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars,
and in default of payment, shall be imprisoned not less than ten
nor more than thirty days, or may be both fined and imprisoned,
in the discretion of the court or justice before whom he may be
tried.

Ibid. sec. 80.

164. The one-half of the fines imposed under the preceding
section shall go to the informer, and the other half to the school
fund of said county.