ART. 3.] WILD FOWL. 269
1882, ch. 278.
265. Any person resisting an officer so authorized to make
arrests and seizures, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hun-
dred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than
one month nor more than sixty days, or both fined and imprisoned
within the limits herein prescribed.
Ibid.
266. The justices of the peace of Baltimore and Harford coun-
ties, and the circuit courts, respectively, for said counties, shall
have concurrent jurisdiction in all cases that may arise under the
provisions of any of the sections of this sub-title of this article,
and all of them shall have full power, authority and jurisdiction,
to impose fines, order the imprisonment and pass the judgments
of condemnation and sale hereby provided in the respective coun-
ties in which the offence may be committed; and if the offence
shall be committed in the waters of the Gunpowder river, or in
the waters of the Chesapeake bay, as aforesaid, the person so
offending, and the articles seized, may be conveyed to either Bal-
timore or Harford county for trial and condemnation before a
justice of the peace or the circuit court for either county.
Ibid.
267. Any person against whom any justice of the peace may
render a judgment under any of the sections of this sub-title of this
article, either to pay a fine or of condemnation of property, may
at any time within ten days from the rendition of such judgment
appeal from such judgment to the circuit court for the county
wherein the same may have been rendered; but no order of
imprisonment or sale shall be stayed unless the party appealing
shall give bond, with two sufficient securities, to be approved of
by the justice, to the State of Maryland, in double the value of
the property condemned and of the fine imposed, as the case may
be, with condition to prosecute such appeal with effect to the
circuit court at its next session thereafter, and to pay the value of
the property condemned and fine imposed, and all costs attending
such proceedings, in case judgment shall be affirmed.
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