1152 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39
1888, art. 39, sec. 56. 1870, ch. 205, sub-sec 7.
55. All vessels or other property condemned under the pro-
visions of any of the six preceding sections shall be sold by the
sheriff or other officer making the seizure, on ten days' notice;
and the proceeds of sale, after deducting the expenses thereof,
shall be paid over to the clerk of the circuit court for the
county, to be disposed of as herein provided.
Ibid. sec. 57. 1870, ch. 205, sub-sec. 8.
56. All money arising from the sale of licenses or from
fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed under any of said sec-
tions shall be paid by the comptroller into the treasury and
placed to the credit of the oyster fund, and the State's portion
of such fines and forfeitures shall be paid by the sheriff or
other officer collecting the same to the clerk of the circuit
court for the county where the same may accrue, and such
clerk shall account for the same to the comptroller of the
treasury in his annual return; and the commanding officer of
the State oyster police force is hereby charged with the enforce-
ment of the provisions of said sections.
Ibid. sec. 58. 1870, ch. 206, sub-sec. 9.
67. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to fish in
the Potomac river from what are known as arks or lighters, or
from any kind of vessel or float, by whatever name called, in
or upon which persons may live or may exclusively occupy,
but all such fishing shall be with and from regular seine or
gilling-boats. Any violation of this section shall subject the
offender, upon conviction thereof, to a fine of not less than
twenty nor more than one hundred dollars for the first offense,
and for any second or subsequent offense to such fine, and also,
in the discretion of the justice of the peace, or of the court
before whom the offender may be convicted, to forfeiture of
such ark, lighter, vessel or float, and fishing outfit used in such
violation thereof.
Ibid. sec. 59. 1870, ch. 205, sub-sec. 10.
58. In case the State of Virginia shall adopt a law similar
in its provisions to the nine preceding sections, citizens of either
State, when arrested for the violation thereof by the police
force, or other officer of either State, shall be delivered up for
trial to the police force, or other officer of the State of which
the offender is a citizen, unless arrested for hindrance or dis-
turbance of the fisheries on the shores of the other State, in
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