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days' public notice by the Sheriff or any Consta- 

 ble the said Justice may designate, and if the 

 owner or owners fail to appear after the notice 

 herein required to be given, the Justice shall pro- 

 ceed ex parte to hear and determine any question 

 of forfeiture, and in all cases arising under this Proceed •?'• 

 Act there shall be an appeal to the Circuit Court ^^'""'*" 

 for Charles county, subject to the same law and 

 rules that govern in other cases of appeal from 

 the decisions of Justices of the Peace. 



Sec. 7. And he it enacted^ That if the Sherift' 

 or Constable, or any citizen or citizens, as pre- 

 scribed in the first section, making seizure of pro- 

 perty under this Act, does not know the name of 

 the owner or person having charge thereof, he or >«'auie not 

 they may describe him in the notice required to 

 be given as the owner of the property without 

 naming him and the Justice if he does not know 

 the name of the owner, may condemn the pro- 

 perty as the property of a person guilty of viola- 

 ting the law without naming such person. 



Sec. 8. And he it enacted, That the proceeds of 

 the sale of any property forfeited as aforesaid, 

 with all costs of prosecution and fines imposed j.^'5^.°^Hi°'*f 

 and collected under this Act, shall after i^ayingsaie! 

 the expenses of the seizure, condemnation and 

 sale, be divided one-fourth to the Sheriff or Con- 

 stable making the seizure^ one-fourth to those aid- 

 ing in making the arrest and seizure, and in case 

 the arrest and seizure is iliade without the aid of 

 an officer, then one-half to those making the ar- 

 rest and seizure, and in all cases, one-half to the 

 County Commissioners of Charles county, to be 

 expended in repairing the public roads of said 

 county, and in default of the payment of such 

 fines and costs of arrest and prosecution, the per- 

 son or persons convicted of the violation of any of 

 the provisions of this Act, shall be committed to 

 the county jail for thirty days, unless such fine 

 and costs be sooner paid. 



Sec. 9, Be it enacted, That any person who 

 shall attempt to violate any of the provisions of „ 



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this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and of party at- 

 on conviction thereof, shall be dealt Avith and ^^j^jP^i'^s to 

 punished as if he had violated said Act ; and the 

 finding of any non-resident of the county upon 

 any of the tributaries of the Potomac River, 



