SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1820.

flat or vessel, under the penalty of forfeiting such canoe, boat,
scow, flat or vessel, together with all the oysters, oyster tongs,
tackle, furniture and apparel, in and belonging to the same.
6. And be it enacted, That any person who shall seize and se-
cure any such canoe, flat, scow, boat, or other vessel aforesaid,
shall immediately thereafter give information thereof to any one
justice of the peace of other of the counties contiguous to such
bays, rivers, creeks or waters, where such seizure shall have
been rnade, who is hereby empowered and required to meet at
such time and place as he shall appoint for the trial thereof, and
the same, if condemned, shall, with all things thereunto belong-
ing, be sold by the order and under the direction of the said jus-
tice, who alter deducting all legal costs and charges, shall pay
one moiety of the proceeds to the collector of the said county,
for the use of the county, and the other moiety to the person who
seized and prosecuted the same.

CHAP. 24.

Person seizing
such vessel to give
information there-
of.

7. And be it enacted. That if any person or persons on board
of any such canoe, scow, boat, flat, or other vessel aforesaid,
shall refuse and not witter to enter, or resist, before or after en-
tering, any officer or officers, or otherwise resist them, or any of
them, in the execution of their office, then every person so offen-
ding, shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars, to be recovered with
costs, by action of debt by such officer in any of the county courts
of the respective counties of this state, the one moiety to the use
of such prosecutor, and the other moiety to the collector of the
county where the offence was committed, for the use of such

Penalty for resist-
ing officers.

county; Provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall
prevent the taking and transporting of oysters as heretofore from
the waters of the Potomac and Pocomoke, where those rivers are
common territory to the states of Maryland and Virginia, nor to
prevent oysters taken from any part of the said rivers or creeks
thereof, from being transported to any place whatsoever; And
provided also, that nothing in this act contained shall be so con-
strued as to prevent any person residing in Washington county,
in the District of Columbia, from using the waters of Maryland
as fully and freely as any citizen of Maryland is authorised by-
law to do.

Proviso.

8. Be it enacted. That this act shall commence and be in force
from and after the first day of April next.

Commencement.

CHAP. XXV.

An Act authorising the Sale within this State of a limited number of Tickets in
the Lottery authorised by an Act of the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania,
entitled, An act to enable George Murray, Gideon Farman, John Draper,
Robert Bald and Thomas Underwood Co-partners in the firm of Murray,
Fairman and Co Engravers of the City of Philadelphia, to dispose of certain
Books, Maps, Plates, and Prints, by way of Lottery.

Passed Jan. 4, 1821.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it
shall and may be lawful for any person or persons in this state,
to sell and dispose of tickets in the lottery authorized by said act,
provided every ticket which may be sold, shall be first endorsed
by the clerk of the executive council, and the proprietors of the said
lottery, before they sell, or cause to he sold, any of the said tickets
within this state, and shall deliver the number or quantity which
they purpose selling within this state, (not exceeding one thou-

Tickets may be
disposed of in this

state.