188 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



where such vessel shall be held and secured, who are hereby empowered 

 and required to meet at such time and place as they shall appoint for the 

 trial thereof, and hear and determine the same, having first given no- 

 tice of the time and place so api)ointed by notice in writing, over their 

 hands, setup in at least three public places within the township where 

 the said vessel is held, at least five days prior thereto, and also served at 

 least five days previously upon the owner or master of said vessel, if he 

 can be found within the county ; and in case the same shall be con- 

 demned, it shall be sold by the order and under the direction of the 

 said justices, who, after deducting all legal costsand charges, and pay- 

 ing the penalty provided for by the first section of this act, shall pay 

 over the remainder of the proceeds of such sale to the owner or claimanb 

 of such steam vessel so seizetl as aforesaid ; one-half of said penalty 

 shall go to the person or persons making the seizure, and the remainder 

 shall be paid to the treasurer of this State for the use of this State. 



5. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons on such vessel 

 aforesaid shall refuse and not suffer to enter the same or resist, before 

 or after entering, any of the said officers, or other i)erson or persons 

 seizing the same, or otherwise resist them, or any of them, in the law- 

 ful seizing of the same, then every person so offending shall forfeit and 

 pay the sum of fifty dollars, to be re<-overed and applied in the manner 

 hereinbefore directed. 



6. And be it enacted, That the sale and disposition of the property 

 seized and condemned, as provided for in this act, shall be conducted 

 in the same manner and upon the same notice as prescribed for the sale 

 of personal property seized under execution issued under the act of the 

 legislature of this State entitled "An act constituting courts for tue 

 trial of small causes"; and all fish and property of a perishable nature, 

 found in and upon said vessel, shall be sold under the order of said two 

 justices, by giving one day's notice of the time and place of such sale, 

 by setting up advertisements thereof in three public places in the town- 

 ship where such property shall be held, and the proceeds thereof applied 

 in the same manner as hereinbefore provided. 



7. A7id be it enacted, That if any owner or claimant of said vessel or 

 vessels and i>roperty seized as hereinbefore provided for shall desire to 

 retain possession of the said property so seized, the owner or claimant 

 of such property shall notify the officer or officers before whom the case 

 is being prosecuted, iu writing, and request that the property so seized 

 shall be appraised ; and the said officers shall be and thej' are hereby re- 

 quired to prex)are a true statement of all property coming into their 

 hands under the provisions of this act; and upon such request of said 

 owner or claimant, three disinterested men shall be appointed, one by 

 the officers, one by the claimant, and one by the joint action of the two 

 appraisers, who shall appraise said vessel and property, the same to be 

 surrendered to said claimant on his giving bonds for the amount of 

 such appraisement, with good and sufficient security for the same and 



