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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

troller. Any captain or other person in charge who

shall violate the provisions of this section shall, upon

proof of such violation before a judge of the circuit

court or justice of the peace of the county nearest

Subject to

which such violation occurred, be subject to a fine

fine

of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one

hundred dollars, and such fine and the costs of

prosecution shall be a lien upon such boat or ves-

sel on which were violated the provisions of this

section, and unless said fine and costs be paid

within ten days or appeal be taken, such boat or

vessel shall be sold at public sale to the highest

bidder for. cash, under such orders and notice as

the judge or justice of the peace may prescribe;

one-half of the fine to be paid to parties making the

arrest and capture, unless the arrest and capture be

made by the State Fishery force, and the balance

to the treasury of the State.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That any person who

has been a resident-citizen for the twelve months

next preceding his application of a county border-

ing on the Potomac Kiver, desiring to use any canoe

or other boat in catching oysters for sale, with rakes

or tongs in any of the waters of the Potomac Kiver,

shall first obtain, by application to the clerk of the

County li-

circuit court for the county wherein he resides, a li-

cense

cense therefor, and such license shall have effect

from the first day of June in the year in which it

may have been issued to the first day of June next

succeeding ; provided that such license shall not au-

thorize the use of said canoe or boat in taking or

catching oysters in any creek, cove, inlet, bay or

sound within the limits of any county other than

that wherein the license shall have been issued.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That each and every

license to catch oysters, for sale, with tongs or rakes

State name

in the waters of the Potomac River, shall state the

and residence

name and residence of the person to whom the same is

granted, the number and length of the canoe or boat

by top or over-all measurement, the county in which

the same is to be used, and the period at which said

license will expire ; said license shall also state that

the holder thereof is, by virtue of said license, au-

thorized and required to make, or assist in making,