THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

may unavoidably cause such obstruction or hindrance by
being wrecked or otherwise in stress of weather; and
when the parly injured, obstructed or hundred as afore-
said, shall tail or refuse to render assistance in removing
the obstruction or hindrance so caused.

CHAP. 149.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That whenever any person
shall make affidavit that the provisions of this act have
been violated, it shall be the duly of the magistrate be-
fore whom such affidavit shall be made, to issue his war-
rant directed to any sheriff or constable or other person
appointed by him on the occasion, for the immediate ap-
prehension of the person charged with violating the pro-
visions aforesaid, and for bringing him before such ma-
gistrate, or before any other magistrate of the same
county, also directing the officer serving the warrant, to
take the boat or other fixture unlawfully used; and the
justice before whom such person shall be brought, if he
shall believe from the evidence adduced before him, that

Make affida-
vit.

Issue warrant.

the act has been violated by such person, shall commit
him to the jail of the county, unless he shall enter into a
recognizance with a sufficient security in a sum not ex-
reeding one thousand dollars, for his appearance at the
next county court, to answer any information, indictment
or presentment, which may be filed or made against him;
and upon such information, indictment or presentment
being made, the said court shall proceed to try the same
without delay.

Commit to jail.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That, if any person charged
with offending as aforesaid, shall fail or refuse to enter
into the recognizance above required, within a reason-
able time, the boats, nets, seines and other fixtures used
by such person, shall be sold after ten days public notice,
with the prohibition that the seines or nets so sold, shall
not be used for the purpose for which they were origi-
nally intended.

CHAPTER 149.

Recognizance.

Ten days no-
tice.

An act supplemental to an act passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and forty-four, chapter one hundred
and three, entitled an act authorising a reduction of the
maximum charge for passengers on the Washington
Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, as at
present established.

Passed Feb.
21, 1846.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,

Reduce rate of
tolls.