270 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Sec. XXVI. And be it enacted. That all seines, nets, or other appa- 

 ratus, or boat or boats, condemned to be forfeited under the provisions 

 of this act, shall be delivered by the sheriff, or other officer making the 

 seizure, to some constable of the county, to be selected by the justice 

 before whom the matter was tried, and shall be by him sold at public 

 sale on ten days' notice, given by written notice to be set up at three of 

 the most public places in the neighborhood of the seizure, and the pro- 

 ceeds of sale after deducting the expeuses thereof shall be paid to the 

 school fund of the county where the offence was committed. 



Sec. XXVII. And be it enacted, That all fines collected for a violation 

 of any of the provisions of this act shall be paid, one-half to the in- 

 former and the remainder to the school fund of the county where the 

 offence was committed. 



Sec. XXVIII. And be it enacted, That every person convicted under 

 the provisions of this act shall have the right of appeal to the circuit court 

 of the county where the offence was committed, or to the criminal court 

 of Baltimore City, if the offence was committed within the limits of Bal- 

 timore City, but executions of the judgment of the justice of peace 

 shall not be stayed unless the party appealing shall give bond to the 

 State of Maryland for double the amount of fine imposed and value of 

 the property decreed to be forfeited, with security approved by the jus- 

 tice rendering the judgment, with condition to prosecute his appeal with 

 effect, or to pay the fine imposed, with all costs, and also to deliver up 

 to the sheriff or other officer making the seizure the property decreed 

 to be forfeited. 



Sec. XXIX. And be it enacted, That if any person applying for a 

 license as hereinbefore provided shall swear falsely to any of the facts 

 required to be sworn to by him, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and 

 liable to be proceeded against by indictment and otherwise, as in other 

 cases of perjury, and shall also forfeit his seine, bet, or other apparatus, 

 and be fined fifty dollars, the same to be enforced as other fines and 

 forfeitures under the provisions of this act. 



Sec. XXX. And be it enacted, That the State of Maryland hereby de- 

 clares her assent and approbation to the passage by the State of Vir- 

 ginia of a law containing the general provisions of this act, to regulate 

 the taking and for the preservation of fish in the Potomac Biver; and 

 in the event of the passage of such a law by the said State, and the as- 

 sent and approbation of the said State duly declared being given to 

 the passage of the act, then nothing herein contained shall be construed 

 to prevent a resident of Virginia holding a license issued under such 

 law from fishing in the waters of the Potomac Biver, subject to the 

 other provisions of this act. 



Sec. XXXI. And be it enacted, That in case the State of Virginia shall 

 enact a law similar in its general provisions to this act, and shall give 

 her assent and approbation to this act with reference to fishing in the 

 Potomac Biver, then citizens of either State when arrested for a viola- 



