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($50) or confined in jail not less than fifteen days nor more
than three months, either or both. In addition to such fines
or imprisonment, any cargo, hold, bin, or lot of oysters found
unculled, or culled in violation of this section, shall be confis-
cated and returned to some natural rock, bed, or shoal of the
Potomac River under the supervision of the officer making the
arrest. Any boat containing unculled oysters or oysters culled
in violation of this section shall be held as security for the
payment of any fine. In case there is an appeal or a waiver
of trial before a magistrate or justice of the peace, the cargo,
hold, bin, or lot of oysters shall be held in the custody of the
officer making the arrest until the captain of the boat or the
vendor or packer of oysters shall have recalled said oysters;
and the officer under whose supervision the reculling is done,
shall give the offender a certificate showing the number of
bushels of such unmarketable oysters and shells culled out and
returned to the natural rocks, beds, or shoals of the Potomac
River; and the costs of reculling and other expenses incident
thereto shall be borne by the offender.

6. Any person found guilty of violating Sub-section (g) to
(k), inclusive, of this section by carrying seed oysters from
the Potomac or for any purpose other than for planting in
the waters of Maryland or Virginia shall be fined not less
than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand
dollars ($1,000), and in addition to such fine the boat used
in such a manner, with her cargo and equipment, shall be con-
demned and forfeited to the State where such conviction shall
occur. Any person found guilty of violating the provisions of
Sub-sections (g) to (k), inclusive, of this section by buying
and carrying seed oysters from the Potomac River without a
permit for each boat so used shall be fined not less than
twenty dollars ($20) nor more than one hundred dollars
($100). The owner or master of any boat or vessel violating
the provisions of (g) to (k), inclusive, of this section by
having any scrape, scoop or dredge, or any part thereof,
on any vessel engaged in taking, catching, buying or carry-
ing seed oysters shall be fined not less than two hundred
and fifty dollars ($250) nor more than five hundred dollars
($500), and in addition thereto the boat or vessel so used
together with its cargo and equipment shall be forfeited to
the State wherein such offender is convicted.

(o) (Conformance with the Compact of 1785.) Nothing in
this section shall be construed in any way to impair, alter, or
abridge any right which the State of Maryland or the Com-
monwealth of Virginia or the citizens of either, may be en-
titled to by, through, or under the Compact entered into be-