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peace upon being arrested on warrant from any jus-
tice of the peace of said county, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor	Penalty for violation.
more than fifty dollars for every such offence, and
shall also forfeit the boat or vessel used or employed
in such violation of this act ; and the said boat or
vessel so forfeited and condemned, shall be sold by
the officer making the seizure or arrests, upon ten
days' notice of such sale, for cash, together with the
sails and furniture of said boat or vessel, and the
implements on board said boat used in such illegal
taking of oysters ; and one-half the proceeds of said
sale shall be paid to the informer and party making
the said seizure, and the balance shall be paid to the
use of the public schools of said county ; and any
party interested shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court for Somerset county from the judgment	Bight of ap- peal.
of any justice of the peace trying any cause arising
for the violation of any of the provisions of this act.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 374.
AN ACT to provide for surveying and marking the
boundary line between the States of Maryland
and Virginia, as ascertained and determined by
the arbitrators heretofore appointed on the part of
Maryland and Virginia respectively.
Whereas the arbitrators to whom were submitted
the controversies between the States of Maryland
and Virginia, concerning their territorial limits, have
filed their award determining and declaring the boundary line of the said States, so far as they are	Preamble.
conterminous ; and whereas it is necessary that said
boundary line should be surveyed and designated by