EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1449

sale after deducting the costs of the proceedings and the ex-
penses of sale, shall be divided as follows: one-fourth to the
officer making the seizure, and the residue to be divided equally
among the persons who aided him in making such seizure.

258. Any party aggrieved shall have the right of appeal
to the Circuit Court for the County.

259. No person shall, from the fifteenth day of October
to the thirty-first day of December in each year, fish with
seine or net of any kind within the waters of the Chesapeake
Bay or its tributaries lying northward by the following line,
that is to say: beginning at the lighthouse on Turkey Point,
in Cecil County, and running thence westwardly to the most
northerly point of Spesutia Island, in Harford County, and
thence west to the mainland in said last named county.

260. Any person violating any of the provisions of Sec-
tion 259 upon conviction, thereof before any Justice of the
Peace! of the County where such violation took place, or on
indictment before the Circuit Court for said County, shall pay
a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars,
in the discretion of said justice or court; and, in default of
payment of such fine, shall be forthwith committed to the
county jail for the period of sixty days; and from the judg-
ment of said justice there shall be the right of appeal to the
circuit court for the county where said justice resides; pro-
vided, said appeal shall be taken within ten days from the
date of the rendition thereof; but execution thereon shall not
be stayed unless the party appealing shall give the usual ap-
peal bond to the State of Maryland, in double the fine imposed
and costs, with two sureties, to be approved by said justice.

261. The justices of the peace of Harford, Cecil and Bal-
timore Counties, and the circuit courts for each of said coun-
ties, shall have concurrent jurisdiction in all cases that may
arise under the provisions of the two preceding sections, when
the violation of such provisions takes place on the bay afore-
said; and when such violation takes place on any waters or
streams forming the boundary between any of said counties,
the justices of the peace of either of said counties bounding on
said waters or stream, and the circuit court for either of said
counties, shall have concurrent jurisdiction; and any person
arrested for the violation of any of the provisions of these
sections may be taken to either of said counties upon whose
justices of the peace or circuit court jurisdiction is conferred
by this Section, for commitment and trial; and from the