WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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guns or other firearms in the possession of such

offender or offenders, to be directed to the sheriff,

or to any constable of Baltimore county, or other

officer authorized to make arrests, or to any citizen

of said county; and it shall be the duty of any

sheriff, constable or other officer authorized to make

arrests, or of any citizen or citizens, upon the receipt

of said warrant, to arrest any person or persons

Duty to arrest.

violating any of the provisions of this act, and to

seize any gun, guns or other firearms, being used in

violation of any of the provisions of this act, and to

bring such offender or offenders before a justice of

the peace of said county, or before the Circuit Court

for said county, and upon conviction for any of the

violations of this act, the said offender or offenders

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished

by a fine of not less than twenty five dollars nor

Punished by

more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the jail

fine.

of said county for not less than twenty days nor

more than forty days, one-half of all such fines to

be paid to the informer, and the other half to be

paid to the use of the public schools of said county,

and the said offender or offenders shall forfeit the

gun, guns or other firearms, seized as aforesaid, and

the same shall be sold and the proceeds of such sale

or sales shall be paid to the use of the public schools

of said county; and in case any such offender or

offenders shall fail to pay the fine that may be im-

posed on him or them for violating any of the provi-

sions of this act, the said offender or offenders shall

be confined in the jail of Baltimore county for a

Shall be con-

period not less than twenty days nor more than

fined in jail.

forty days, or until such fine be paid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person or

persons, who may feel himself or themselves ag-

grieved by any judgment rendered by a justice of

the peace, under the provisions of this act, shall

have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court for the

Right to ap-

county where the act was committed, upon the con-

peal.

dition and subject to all the regulations now provided

by the general law regulating appeals from justices

of the peace in such cases made and provided.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1882.