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ity for so doing whenever required by the police or other legal
authority of either State. The legal authorities of either State
shall have the right to arrest any offender, and if necessary in
order to arrest, shall pursue such offender beyond the boundary
line of either State upon navigable waters, and arrest such
offender whenever found upon such waters.

(h) Any person violating this section, where not otherwise
provided, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than
Twenty-five Dollars ($25. 00) nor more than Three Hundred
Dollars ($300. 00); and where forfeiture of boat, vessel, net or
other equipment is provided for in said section the said boat,
vessel, net or other equipment shall be sold at public auction
by the sheriff of the county for cash after ten days' notice; in
case of appeal, the appellant shall remain in custody and the
boat, vessel, net or other equipment shall be sold as above
provided, unless recognizance be entered into for double the
amount of the fine and double the value of said boat, vessel, net
or other equipment, conditioned on the performance of the
final judgment of the court. Upon such recognizance being
given, the party convicted and the aforesaid property shall be
discharged.

(i) If any oyster inspector or other officer empowered with
the duties of enforcing the provisions of this section knowingly
fail to report violations of the same or to perform any of the
duties herein required of him, he shall, for every such offense,
be liable to a fine of One Hundred Dollars ($100. 00) to be
applied to the oyster fund of his State.

(j) Nothing in this section shall be construed in any way
to impair, alter or abridge any rights which either State, or the
citizens thereof, may be entitled to, either by, through, under
or against the compact entered into between the States of
Maryland and Virginia on the twenty-eighth day of March,
1783.

9. OYSTER PACKERS AND DEALERS.

(a) Packers' and Dealers' License. It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation having a fixed place of
business, buying oysters and employing labor to prepare them
for market to engage in the business of buying, selling, market-
ing, packing or canning oysters without first taking out a li-
cense to engage in such business by application to the Commis-
sion of Tidewater Fisheries of Maryland. Where any such per-
son, firm or corporation operates more than one house for the
buying, selling, marketing, packing or canning of oysters, a
separate license shall be obtained for each house in which
oysters are shucked or otherwise prepared for market; such