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mitted; and if the offense shall be committed in the waters of
the Gunpowder river, or in the waters of the Chesapeake bay,
as aforesaid, the person so offending, and the articles seized,
may be conveyed to either Baltimore or Harford county fop
trial and condemnation before a justice of the peace or the
Circuit Court for either county.

447. Any person against whom any justice of the peace
may render a judgment, under any of the sections of this sub
title of this article, either to pay a fine or of condemnation of
property, may at any time within ton days from the rendition
of such judgment appeal from such judgment to the Circuit
Court for the county wherein the same may have been ren-
dered; but no order of imprisonment or sale shall be stayed
unless the party appealing shall give bond, with two sufficient
securities, to be approved of by the justice, to the State of
Maryland in double the value of the property condemned and
of the fine imposed, as the case may be, with condition to
prosecute such appeal with effect to the Circuit Court at its
next session thereafter, and to pay the value of the property
condemned and fine imposed, and all costs attending such
proceedings, in case judgment shall be affirmed.

448. All articles hereinbefore enumerated, seized and con-
demned, under the provisions of any of the sections of
this sub-title of this article, shall be sold by the constable
or sheriff, or other officer of the county in which such con-
demnation may be made, at public sale, to the highest bidder
for cash, after giving twenty days' notice of the time and
place of such sale by advertisement in one newspaper in the
county where such condemnation may be made, and by writ-
ten or printed notice posted up at four of the most public
places within two miles of the place of said sale; and the
proceeds of such sale, after deducting all the legal expenses
of seizure, condemnation and sale, shall be returned to the
Commissioners of said county, for the use of said county;
if among the articles so seized and condemned there shall be a
big or swivel gun, the same shall not be sold, but shall at once
be destroyed or rendered useless by the officer in custody
thereof.

449. The Clerk of the Circuit Court shall make out annually,
before the time of making the county levy, a list of the State's
witnesses who have attended at said court, with the number of
days they have attended thereon, and lay said list before the
County Commissioners.

450. The County Commissioners shall, at the usual time
of making the county levy, levy such sum of money as may