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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

upon conviction thereof before any justice of the

peace of Cecil or Harford counties, the license of

such person or persons shall be revoked, and such

person or persons, whether licensed or not, shall be

fined not less than twenty dollars for each offence,

and shall forfeit the boat and gun or guns, and ma-

Penalty for

terial so employed in violation of the provisions of

violation.

this section, which boat and gun or guns, and ma-

terial shall be sold, and the proceeds of such fine

and sale, after the costs of prosecution have been

paid, shall go to the officer or officers making the ar-

rest, and the possession of any docks or gun, by any

such boat so offending, shall be prima facie evidence

of a violation of this act.

Approved March 30, 1S82.

Chapter 181.

AN ACT to enable the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore to accept a donation from Enoch Pratt

for the establishment and perpetual endowment

of a Free Public Library in said city, to be known

as " The Enocli Pratt Free Library of Baltimore

city," and to provide for the appointment and in-

corporation of trustees for the management thereof.

WHEREAS Enoch Pratt, of the city of Baltimore,

has, with signal generosity, public spirit and philan-

thropy, offered to establish an institution to be known

as " The Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore

city," and for that purpose has agreed to erect upon

a lot on Mulberry street, in said city, owned by him,

a library building to cost the sum of two hundred and

Preamble.

twenty-five thousand dollars, or thereabout, and to

convey the said lot and building, when completed, to

the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and also

to pay the sum of eight hundred and thirty-three

thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and

thirty-three cents to the said Mayor and City Coun-

cil of Baltimore, provided the said Mayor and City

Council will accept said conveyance and said sum

of money, and agree, by an ordinance, to grant and