2164 WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 24.

said sections, the said justice shall issue his warrant for the arrest
of the offender, and the seizure of the seine used in violation of
the said sections, which warrant shall be directed to the sheriff or
any constable of said county, requiring said offender to be brought
before him, and also all seines used in violating said sections,
whether the owner of the same be known to him or not.

1880, ch. 233.

201. It shall be the duty of any justice of the peace of the
county, before whom it shall be proven satisfactorily that any
nets or seines have been used in violation of said sections, to
cause such nets or seines to be sold at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, after giving ten days' notice of the time
and place of such sale in at least two public places in the vicinity
of said sale; and one-half of all fines collected under said sections
shall go to the informer, and the other half to the school fund of
Worcester county.

POCOMOKE.

1878, ch. 253.

202. The citizens of Pocomoke city, formerly called Newtown
in said county, are constituted and made a body corporate, by
the name of " The Commissioners of Pocomoke city," with all
the privileges of a body corporate, and with the right to have a
common seal and perpetual succession.

Ibid.

203. The male residents of said Pocomoke city, of the age of
twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United States,
who have resided in the said town for the space of six months next
preceding the first Monday in June, shall elect by ballot on that
day, at the academy in said town, in every second year, account-
ing from the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, five com-
missioners for said town, who shall have resided within the limits
of the same one year next preceding the election.

Ibid.

204. The limits of said town shall be defined as beginning at
the county wharf, on Pocomoke river at Pocomoke city; thence
up, by and with the aforesaid river to the ferry causeway; thence
by and with the same to a bridge over a gut twenty-one rods