930 CHARLES COUNTY. [ART. 9.

or may set up notices at the most public places in the neighbor-
hood of the seizure, warning the owner of such property to appear
before a justice of the peace of the county to be therein named,
on a day certain, not less than ten days from the time of seizure,
to show cause why the said property should not be condemned.

1873, cil. 198.

72. If, upon the hearing in any case of seizure as aforesaid,
the justice of the peace is satisfied that the owner or person
having charge of the property so seized is guilty of violating any
of the provisions of sections 66, 67 or 68, then such justice shall
adjudge the property seized to be condemned and sold by the sheriff
or constable seizing the same, after ten days' public notice; and in.
case such seizure shall be made by any citizen, other than the
sheriff or a constable, then the sale of the property so seized
shall be sold on ten days' public notice by the sheriff or any
constable the said justice may designate; and if the owner fails to
appear after the notice herein required to be given, the justice
shall proceed eso parte to hear and determine any question of
forfeiture; and in all cases arising under said sections there shall
be an appeal to the circuit court for the county, subject to the
same law and rules that govern in other cases of appeal from the
decisions of justices of the peace.

Rayner o. State, 52 Md. 368.

Ibid.

73. H the sheriff or constable, or any citizen, making such.
seizure of property, does not know the name of the owner or
person having charge thereof, he may describe him in the notice
required to be given as the owner of the property, without naming
him; and the justice, if he does not know the name of the owner,
may condemn the property as the property of a person guilty of
violating the law. without naming such person.

Ibid.

74. The proceeds of sale of any property forfeited as afore-
said, with all costs of prosecution and fines imposed and collected,
shall, after paying the expenses of the seizure, condemnation and
sale, be divided, one-fourth to the sheriff or constable making the