832 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

1876, ch 280.

162. No person shall fish at any time in the waters of Elk
river and North-East river and their tributaries, lying within the
limits of Cecil county, with any hauling seine of any description,
the meshes of which are of a less measure than an inch and a
quarter mesh; provided, however, that this section shall not
apply to any established herring and shad fishing shore on said
waters, from the fifteenth day of March to the tenth day of June-
of each year.

1874, ch. 888.

163. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding
section, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace
in Cecil county, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars, and forfeit
such seine and the boats and materials used in fishing the same,
which shall be sold at public auction for cash; one-half of said
fine and the proceeds of said sale shall go to the officer making

the arrest, and the other half to the public school fund of said
county.

1878, ch. 376. 1888, ch. 390.

164. No person shall, from the fifteenth day of October to
the thirty-first day of December in each year, fish with seine or
net of any kind within the waters of the Chesapeake bay or its
tributaries lying northward by the following line, that is to say:
beginning at the light-house on Turkey Point, in Cecil county,
and running thence westwardly to the most northerly point of
Spesutia island, in Harford county, and thence west to the main-
land in said last named county.

Ibid.

165. Any person violating any of the provisions of section
164, 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 discretion of"
said justice or court; and, in default of payment of such fine,
shall be forthwith committed to the county jail for the period of
sixty days; and from the judgment of said justice there shall be
the right of appeal to the circuit court of the county where said
justice resides; provided, said appeal shall be taken within ten.