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person or persons showing by affidavit that some section of this- 

 act has been violated, giving tlie names of the person and persons 

 violating, if known, and if unknown, such affidavit shall state by 

 some person or persons whose name or names are unknown, and 

 sucli complaint shall be made before any justice of the peace of 

 the county in which such violation has been made. 



§ 9. Where such violation is alleged to have been committed 

 upon that portion of a stream or water course which may be the 

 dividing line between two counties, then the complaint may be 

 made to any justice of the peace of either of such counties. 



§ 10. If the justice before whom such complaint shall be made 

 shall be satisfied that there is reasonable cause to justify the 

 making of such complaint, he shall issue his warrant, directed to 

 the sheriff or constable of such county, commanding him forth wilh 

 to arrest and bring before him, or in his absence, before some other 

 justice of the peace within such county, the person or persons al- 

 leged to have been guilty of violating any of the sections of this act. 



§ 11. Whenever any person or persons shall be brought before 

 any justice of the peace, in the manner j)rovided in this act, it 

 shall be tlie duty of such justice to hear and determine the com- 

 plaint. The person or persons so charged may demand a jury at 

 any time before the commencement of the trial, and the case shall 

 be tried as cases before justices in civil cases, and judgment shall 

 be for conviction or acquittal of the defendant or defendants in 

 the case. In case a jury is called, the form of the verdict shall 

 be, if for conviction: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty, and 



assess the fine at ;" anxl if for acquittal: "We, the jury, find 



the defendant not guilty." The justice shall pronounce judgment 

 in accordance with the verdict. 



§ 12 Whenever any judgment of conviction shall be rendered 

 against any defendant or defendants, as above provided, execution 

 shall issue forthwith on such judgment, and the sheriff or consta- 

 ble to whom the same shall be directed, shall pay one-half of all 

 penalties collected on such execution in payment of such judgment 

 to the person or persons who shall have made the complaint, and 

 the remaining one-half to the superintendent of schools of the 

 county wherein such trial shall be had. 



§ i:'. Whenever any execution issued as above provided, shall 

 be returned ''No property found," the justice issuing the same, or 

 in case of his death or absence, any other justice having posses- 

 sion of the docket in which such judgment was entered, shall issue 

 his warrant to the sheriff' or any constable of such county, com- 

 manding him to take and deliver the defendant or defendants in 

 the execution, to the jailor of said county, who shall receive such 

 defendant or defendants into his custody and commit him to the 

 county jail of such county, or workhouse of such county, when- 

 ever one exists, for a period of not less than ten nor more 

 than sixty days, as the justice shall decide and direct in his war- 

 rant, but such defendant or defendants so arrested or committed 

 shall be discharged at any time on payment of such fine and costs. 



