FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

license fee hereinbefore named paid in accordance with such
measurement; and the right granted by any license already
issued shall be suspended until the full payment of such license
fee is completed; and any law, general or local, in conflict
herewith, shall be void and of no effect.

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23. Any master or person in charge of any vessel, who shall
violate any of the provisions of the preceding sections, from
eighteen to twenty, inclusive, by taking oysters unlawfully,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indict-
ment and conviction in any Circuit Court in this State, or in

Violations of
secs. 18 to 30.

the Criminal Court of Baltimore city, before which such case
is tried, shall be sentenced to the house of correction for a
term not less than three months nor more than one year, and
the boat or vessel used in such violation, together with the
papers, furniture and tackle on board of said boat or vessel at
the time of said violation, shall be forfeited, but shall be
released upon the payment of not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and costs and
expenses for each and every violation of the preceding sections,
in the discretion of the court.

Penalty.

24. Upon information given under oath to any judge of the
Circuit Court or justice of the peace, of any violation of any of the
provisions of this article, he shall issue his warrant to the
sheriff or any constable, requiring any of them to whom it may
be directed to summon a posse comitatus, if necessary, and pro-
ceed forthwith to arrest the party or parties alleged to have
been engaged in the violation of this article, and to seize and
take possession of any boat, canoe or vessel, together with all
her tackle and apparel on board of the same, and deliver the
same to the judge of the Circuit Court or a justice of the
peace of this State, to he dealt with according to the provisions
of this article; provided, that any justice of the peace, before
whom any person is brought, charged with a violation of any
of said sections of this article, the punishment for which is
imprisonment in the house of correction, shall grant the
parties charged a speedy hearing, and if in his judgment the
facts appear to warrant a conviction, he shall hold the parties
charged for their appearance before the grand jury of the
county for which he is appointed at the succeeding term of the
Circuit Court.

25. It shall not be lawful for the owner or master or any
person on board of or having control over any boat or vessel
licensed to catch or take oysters in the waters of this State

Arrest of
offenders.