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seizure, one-fourth to those aiding in making the arrest and
seizure; and in case the arrest and seizure are made without the
aid of an officer, then one-half to those making the arrest and
seizure; and in all cases one-half to the county commissioners, to
be expended in repairing the public roads of the county; and in
default of the payment of such fine and costs of arrest and prose-
cution, the person convicted of the violation of any of the pro-
visions of sections 66, 67 or 68, shall be committed to the county
jail for thirty days, unless such fine and costs be sooner paid.

1872, ch. 198.

75. Any person who shall attempt to violate any of the pro-
visions of sections 66, 67 or 68, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof, shall be dealt with and punished as if
he had violated said sections; and the finding of any non-resident
of the county upon any of the tributaries of the Potomac river,
lying wholly or in part in the county, having in his possession
any seine, net, tackle or other contrivance generally used in
taking terrapins or in hauling seines for fish, shall be prima
facie evidence of such attempt by such person.

1878, ch. 503.

76. The oyster police boat for the seventh district is directed
and empowered to supervise the fisheries in the said waters of the
Potomac and its tributaries, and the Wicomico and its tributaries
in Charles county, between the first day of June and the fifteenth
day of March in each year; and upon information being con-
veyed to the commander of said oyster police boat that any per-
son has violated the provisions of sections 66, 67 or 68, he shall
arrest said offender and carry him before some justice of the
peace within said county, and upon conviction, he shall be sub-
jected to the several fines and penalties as provided in section 69.

Ibid.

77. It shall be unlawful for any person to construct a fish
trap, or pound net, or any fishing apparatus of like description,
near the mouths of any of the tributaries of the said Potomac
and Wicomico rivers within Charles county, between Maryland
Point in said county and Chisildine's Island in St. Mary's county,