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shall be held as security for the payment of the fine hereinbefore
mentioned, and be subject also to a fine of not less than fifty
dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars; and in the
event of such fines not being paid within a period of twenty
days, then such vessel shall be forfeited and sold; the surplus,
after payment of fines and costs to be paid to the owner of the
boat; one-half of fines to go to the informer and the other half
to the State.

1894, ch. 380.

53. It shall be lawful for citizens of the State of Maryland '
and Virginia to take oysters in the Potomac river after comply-
ing with the requirements or the law of the State of which they
are citizens, for the taking of oysters from the waters of such
State; and any citizen of either State who takes oysters in the
Potomac river without having complied with the requirements of
the law of his State as to the taking of oysters in its own waters,
shall be considered guilty of violating the laws of the State of
which he is a citizen, and shall be prosecuted according to such
laws.

Ibid.

54. All offenses committed against the provisions of sections
fifty-one, fifty-two and fifty-three, by persons not citizens and
residents as aforesaid of either State, may be punished by any of
the justices of the peace or courts of either State having
criminal jurisdiction. All offenses committed by citizens of
either State shall be punished by any of the justices of the peace
or courts of the State of which they are citizens, having criminal
jurisdiction; the authorities of either State shall have the right
to examine into the right of any person taking oysters in the
Potomac river, and all persons taking oysters in the Potomac
river shall exhibit their authority for so doing whenever required
by the police or other legal authority of either State; the legal
authorities of either State shall have the right to arrest any
offender against paid sections in the Potomac river, and to pursue
such offender beyond the boundary line of either State upon
navigable waters and arrest him wherever found upon such
waters.

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