ART. 72] DREDGING. 465

cents per gross ton to the comptroller of the State for such
license, and any law, general or local, in conflict herewith, shall
be void and of no effect.

1894, ch. 380.

23. Any master or person in charge of any vessel, who shall
violate any of the provisions of the preceding sections, from
eighteen to twenty, inclusive, by taking oysters unlawfully, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and
conviction in any circuit court in this State, or in the Criminal
Court of Baltimore, before which such case is tried, shall be
sentenced to the house of correction for a term not less than
three months nor more than one year, and the boat or vessel used
in such violation, together with the papers, furniture and tackle
on board of said boat or vessel at the time of said violation, shall
be forfeited, but shall be released upon the payment of not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and
costs and expenses for each and every violation of the preceding
sections, in the discretion of the court.

Ibid.

24. Upon information given under oath to any judge of the
circuit court or justice of the peace, of any violation of any of
the provisions of this article, he shall issue his warrant to the
sheriff or any constable, requiring any of them to whom it may
be directed to summon a posse comitatus, if necessary, and pro-
ceed forthwith to arrest the party or parties alleged to have been
engaged in the violation of this article, and to seize and take
possession of any boat, canoe or vessel, together with all her
tackle and apparel on board of the same, and deliver the same
to the judge of the circuit court or a justice of the peace of this
State, to be dealt with according to the provisions of this article;
provided, that any justice of the peace, before whom any person
is brought, charged with a violation of any of said sections of
this article, the punishment for which is imprisonment in the
house of correction, shall grant the parties charged a speedy
hearing, and if in his judgment the facts appear to warrant a
conviction, he shall hold the parties charged for their appearance
before the grand jury of the county for which he is appointed
at the succeeding term of the circuit court.
SO