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appropriated to the payment of the fine and costs, 

 the balance, if any, shall be paid over to the 

 owner or owners of said seine and boat, and 

 nothing in this act shall be so construed as to 

 deny to the defendant or defendants in all such 

 cases the right of appeal to the Circuit Court of 

 the district wherein such offence is committed ; 

 provided the defendant or defendants shall demand 

 an appeal within ten days from the date of judg- 

 ment. 



CECIL COUNTY. 



Section 1, Chapter 388 of Laics of 18 74, is repealed 

 by Section 1, Chapter 280 of the Laius of 1876, 

 which re-enacts the same ivith amenclmen's. 



Laws of 1876, Chapter 280, Section 1. . 



Sec. 1. No person or persons shall fish at any 

 ^'ottofl8ll. time in the waters of Elk River and North East 

 River and their tributaries, lying and being within 

 the limits of Cecil county, with any hauling seine 

 of any description, the meshes of which are of a 

 less measure than what is generally known as inch 

 and a quarter mesh ; provided however, that this 

 p^^ig^ section shall not apply to any established fishing 



shore on said waters, fishing for herring and shad, 

 from the fifteenth day of March to the tenth day 

 of June of each year. 



Laws of 1874, Chapter 388, Section 2. 



Sec. 2. And he it enacted, That any person or 

 Violating. persons violating the provisions of this act, upon 

 conviction thereof before any justice of the peace 

 in Cecil county, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars, 

 and forfeit such seine- and the boats and materials 

 used in fishing the same, which shall be sold at 

 public auction for cash, one-half of said fine and 

 the proceeds of said sale shall go to the officer 

 making the arrest, and the other half to the public 

 school fund of said county. 



DORCHESTER COUNTY. 



See Chapter 218 of the Laws of 1876, as in Caro- 

 line County. 



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