766

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

force shall arrest any person or persons found violating any of the

provisions of this act, and take them at once before a justice of

the peace of said county to be dealt with as hereinafter provided;

Arrests.

every person using any boat, canoe or vessel in taking and catching

crabs with scrape, drags, dredges or similar instruments in the

waters of said county, shall exhibit to the sheriff and constables

of said county and to the officers of said fishery force the license

used hereunder for the use of said boat, canoe or vessel when

called upon by any of said officers to do so.

SUB-SEC. 7. Any owner or owners of any boat, canoe or vessel,

who shall use or allow the same to be used in taking and catch-

ing crabs with scrape, drag, dredges or similar instruments in

the waters of said county, without first having obtained a license

therefor as hereinbefore provided, or any owner or owners of any

boat, canoe or vessel who shall use or allow the same to be used

in taking and catching crabs as aforesaid in the waters of said

county, when said boat has not been owned in whole by residents
of said county for the six months next preceding, provided, said

boat, canoe or vessel is six months old; or any owner or owners of

any boat, canoe or vessel who shall use, or allow the same to be

used in taking and catching crabs as aforesaid in the waters of

said county, when said boat, canoe or vessel has not been owned

in whole by a resident of said county, from the time of the con-

struction and completion of said boat, canoe or vessel, provided,

said boat is less than six months old; or any owner or owners of

Miademea-

any boat, canoe or vessel who shall allow the same to be used in

nor

taking and catching crabs as aforesaid in the waters of said

county, the Great Choptank river excepted, by any person or per-

sons, except bona fide residents of Dorchester county, who. have

resided therein for the term of twelve months next preceding; or

any owner who shall have fraudulently obtained a license under

this act to use his boat, canoe or vessel in taking and catching

crabs with scrapes, drag, dredge or other similar instruments in

the waters of said county, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-

deanor, and upon conviction thereof in the circuit court for Dor-

chester county or before a justice of the peace of said county, shall

be sentenced to pay a fine not less than fifty dollars, nor more than

one hundred dollars, and costs of prosecution, and stand com-

mitted to the county jail until such fine and costs are paid, or

until discharged therefrom in due course of law, and all fines

arising from any violation of this act, shall be paid by the defen-

dant or defendants unto the justice of the peace trying said case,

or to the sheriff of said county when the same is imposed by the

circuit court for said county, and by them to be paid unto the

school commissioners of said county for the public school of said

county, and a failure by the said justice or sheriff to pay said fine

within thirty days after receipt of the same to the said school

commissioners shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall subject