480 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

connecting the Brewerton and Craighill channels, shall forfeit his
boat or vessel; and it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace
of the county or city in which such person shall be arrested to
try such person, and, on conviction, to condemn said boat or ves-
sel, and sell the same on five days' notice, and fine the said
offender a sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-
five dollars, for each and every offense; and the said justice of
the peace shall pay over one-half of said fines and forfeitures to
the informer, and the other half to the school board of said county
or city.

Potomac.

1894, ch. 380.

51. It shall not be lawful for any person to take or catch
oysters in any manner whatever in the waters of the Potomac
river, unless he be a citizen of Maryland or Virginia, and shall
have been a resident of the State of which he is a citizen for
twelve months immediately preceding. Any one violating this
section shall be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars; any
vessel in which oysters are taken contrary to this section shall be
forfeited and sold, one-half of the proceeds to go to the State
where convicted, and the other half to the informer.

Ibid.

52. at shall not be lawful for any citizen of Maryland or Vir-
ginia to take or catch oysters with a scoop, scrape or dredge or
any such instrument, in the waters of the Potomac river between
the fifteenth day of March and the fifteenth day of October of
each year; it shall not be lawful for any citizen of either State
to take oysters with tongs from the waters of the Potomac river,
between April the twenty-fifth and September the first of each
year; and it shall not be lawful for any person to have in posses-
sion any oysters in the waters of the Potomac river between the
twenty-fifth day of April and the first day of September of each1
year; every person found guilty of violating any of the pro-
visions of this section shall be fined not less than two hundred
and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each
offense; and the vessel by which oysters are illegally taken or
which receives oysters so illegally taken, or which has oysters on
board within the limits of said river within the time specified)