426 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to the sheriff or any constable of the county or other officers
authorized to make arrests, or any citizen; and it shall be the
duty of any sheriff, constable or other officer authorized to
make arrests, or citizen, upon receipt of said warrant, to
arrest any person violating either of said sections, and to
seize any such seine, net, boat or other fishing outfit, found
being used in such violation, and to bring such offender before
a justice of the peace most accessible or convenient; and upon
conviction thereof the said offender shall be fined not less than
twenty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and shall
forfeit the seine or net, boat and other outfit used in such
fishing, which shall be sold, and the proceeds paid to the
County Commissioners for the county; and in case of non-pay-
ment of the fine and costs imposed by said justice the said of-
fender shall be confined in the county jail for a period not ex-
ceeding forty days and not less than twenty days, or until said
fine and costs are paid.

153. It shall not be lawful for any person to fish with
seines in the waters of the Gunpowder river from the twentieth
day of May to the twentieth day of August, and from the first
day of November to the first day of February; and any person
so fishing in said waters shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction of having violated this section, shall pay a
fine of not less than twenty dollars, nor more than one hun-
dred dollars for each offense.

154. Any sheriff or constable who shall be satisfied either
upon his own views or from information received on oath, that
any person has violated the provisions of the preceding section,
is authorized and empowered to arrest the offender.

155. The justices of the peace for Baltimore and Har-
ford counties, and the Circuit Courts for said counties, shall
have concurrent jurisdiction in all cases that may arise under
the two preceding sections, and shall have full power to im-
pose the said fines in the respective counties in which the
offense may be committed; and the person so offending may
be conveyed to either Baltimore or Harford county for trial
and condemnation before a justice of the peace or the Circuit
Court for either county.

156. Any party against whom any justice of the peace
may render a judgment under the provisions of any of the sec-
tions of this sub-title of this article, at any time within ten
days from the renditipn of such judgment, may appease there-
from to the Circuit Court for the county wherein the same
may have been rendered; but no execution shall be stayed