A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

as the case may be, with security to be approved
by the Justice of the Peace rendering the judg-
ment, or by the Clerk of the court to which the
appeal may be taken, with conditions to prosecute
such appeal with effect, and to pay the value of
the property condemned, and the amount of the
fine imposed and interest and all costs attending
such proceedings, in case such judgment shall be
confirmed.

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22. That when any offence is committed under
any of the provisions of this Article (except under
the nineteenth section) any Justice of the Peace
or the Circuit Court, as the case may be, of the
county to which the person offending or the vessel
engaged in violating such provisions, may be
taken after being arrested or seized, shall have
jurisdiction of such offence, when offence under
the nineteenth section of this Article shall be
committed, if the same be committed within the
limits of of any county, any Justice of the Peace,
or the Circuit Court of such county, shall have
jurisdiction of such offence : or if the same be
committed within the waters of this State, bat not
within the limits of any county, then any Justice of
the Peace or Circuit Court (as the case may be) of
any county lying opposite and most convenient of
access, from the place where the offence is com-
mitted, shall have jurisdiction thereof, and all pro-
ceedings. , whether before a Justice of the Peace or
before the Circuit Court, shall be in the name of the
State ; and if the party accused be acquitted the
Comptroller of the State shall pay the costs out
of the fund created by this Article.

Jurisdiction.

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22. That any citizen of this State, owning lands
lying in any of the navigable waters of this State,
the lines of such lands, including any land cov-
ered by such waters, may deposit, plant, bed, sow
oysters or other shell fish, in the waters so included
within the, lines of his land, and any citizen of
any county owning land lying or bounding upon
the waters of this State, may locate and appropri-
ate in any of the waters thereof contiguous thereto,
five acres for the purpose of preserving, depositing,
bedding, or sowing oysters, or other shell fish ;

Owners may
bed oysters.

provided, that, the said location or appropriation
shall be described by stakes, bushes, or other visi-
ble and proper marks or metes and bounds, which

Proviso.