ART. 72] CRAIGHILL CHANNEL——PATUXENT. 1597

such rights of the riparian proprietor shall extend to the middle
of such creek, cove or inlet.
Powell v Wilson, 85 Md. 356.

1894, ch 360, sec. 48. 1896, ch. 418.

49. It shall be unlawful, without authority from the owner,
for any person or persons to take or catch planted or bedded
oysters, knowing them to be so planted or bedded, or to remove,
break off, destroy, or otherwise injure or alter any stakes,
bounds, marks, buoys or other designation of any of said beds ;
any person or persons violating the provisions of this section
or section 48 of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof before the circuit court or a justice
of the peace for the county where the oysters were bedded,
shall be liable to the fines and penalties in section 46 of this
article.

Ibid sec 49.

50. Any person convicted before a justice of the peace under
any of the preceding provisions of this article shall in all cases
have the right of an appeal to the circuit court for the county.
Messick v. State, 82 Md. 585.

Craighill Channel.

Ibid. sec. 50

61. Any person dragging, raking or dredging for oysters
within five hundred yards of either edge of the new channel at
the mouth of the Patapsco river, known as the Craighill chan-
nel, extending from the seven-foot knoll to the month of the
Magothy river, or within five hundred yards of either edge of
the cut-off 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 vessel and sell the same on five days'
notice and fine the said offender a sum not less than five dol-
lars 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.

Patuxent.

1904, ch. 467, sec. 1.

52. It shall be unlawful to take or catch oysters with rakes
or tongs in the waters of the Patuxent river, between the first