482 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

1894, ch. 380.

55. The penalties imposed by sections 51, 52 and 53 shall be
recovered before any justice of the peace of either State, in any
county of either State, with the right to the State or the defend-
ant to appeal to the circuit court for the county in which such
cause has been tried, or to the Criminal Court of Baltimore, if
tried in Baltimore city, or in the Hustings Court of the city, if
tried in a city of Virginia; the parties and vessels charged may
be arrested without warrant and carried before any justice of the
. peace; the justice shall cause a guard to be put upon the vessel,
and the parties charged to be confined in jail or bailed; upon
conviction the offender shall be committed to jail until the fine
is paid, and the vessel shall be sold at public auction by the sheriff
of the county or city for cash after ten days' notice; in case of
appeal the appellant shall remain in custody and the vessel shall
"be sold as above provided, unless recognizance be entered into
for double the amount of the fine and double the value of the
vessel, conditioned for the performance of the final judgment of
the court; upon such recognizance being given, the party con-
victed and the vessel shall be discharged.

Ibid

56. Nothing in the five preceding sections shall be construed
in any way to impair, alter or abridge any rights which either
State or the citizens thereof may be entitled to, either by,
through, under or against the compact entered into between the
States of Maryland and Virginia on the twenty eighth day of
March, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, or any existing law of
either of said two States.

General Measurers and Inspectors.

1898, ch. 449.

57. The Governor, at each session of the General Assembly
shall appoint ten persons to be known as the general measurers
and inspectors of oysters; and each general measurer and inspec-
tor shall give bond to the State of Maryland in the sum of three
thousand dollars, with a surety or sureties to be approved by the
comptroller, for the faithful discharge of his duties, and each
general measurer and inspector of oysters shall have full power