904 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

first of April and the thirty-first of October in any year shall be
prima fade evidence of the violation of the prohibitions of said
sections by the person in whose possession said ducks may be
found, and the offender shall be fined, in the discretion of the
court, not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars; and the said funds for said license shall be a blended
fund, to be divided equally between said two counties, and to be
disposed of as herein provided.

1872, ch. 54

399. Any party against whom any justice of the peace may
render a judgment under said sections, 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 execution 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, or 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.

Ibid.

400. If any person shall violate any of the provisions of said
sections 380 to 402, inclusive, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be liable for the fine imposed for such viola-
tion, and the same may be recovered by action of debt, in the
name of the State, before a justice of the peace of either Cecil,
Harford or Kent county, or by indictment in the circuit court for
either of said counties; and when any person is convicted of the
violation of any of the provisions of said sections, and refuses or
neglects to pay the fine for which judgment is given against him,
he shall be committed to the county jail for a period of time not
less than twenty and not more than forty days; but the party so
committed shall be released on the payment of the fine, costs
and jail expenses.