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one hundred dollars; five dollars to the informer, and the
balance to the county commissioners of such county for school
purposes.

1888, art. 39, sec. 17. 1874, ch. 79, sec. 5.

17. Any person who may feel himself aggrieved by any
judgment rendered by a justice of the peace under the four
preceding sections shall have the right to appeal to the circuit
court for the county where the act was committed upon the
conditions and regulations provided by law for appeals from
judgments of justices of the peace; but execution shall not be
stayed, unless the party appealing shall give bond to the State
in double the amount of the fine imposed, with security approved
by the justice rendering the judgment, with condition to prose-
cute his appeal with effect, or to pay the fine imposed with all
costs.

Patuxent.

Ibid. sec. 18. 1860, art. 41, sec. 22. 1841, ch. 143. 1872, ch. 128.
1874, ch. 219.

18. It shall not be lawful for any persons, other than bona
fide resident citizens of Prince George's, Charles, St. Mary's,
and Calvert counties, to take or catch fish in the waters of the
Patuxent river and tributaries, with any seine, weir trap or other
device, excepting only the hook and line; provided, that the
provisions of this section shall not apply to such as shall obtain
permission from the owners of lands bordering on said waters
to fish off and opposite their land or lands so bordering on said
waters; and provided that none other than bona fide resident
citizens of said counties shall use in any of the waters of said
river that bind on Prince George's, Charles and Calvert counties
above the village known as Benedict any seine, weir, or net
more than seventy fathoms long and less than two inches square
in the mesh.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1874, ch. 219, sub-sec. 1.

19. It shall not be lawful for any person to empty his
seines upon the beach so as to leave the smaller fish to perish,
but he shall empty the same in water of sufficient depth to
enable such smaller fish to return to the waters for growth and
maturity.

Ibid. sec. 20. 1874, ch. 219, sub-sec. 2.

20. Any person violating the provisions of the two preced-
ing sections shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more