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and any party or parties feeling himself or 

 themselves aggrieved by any conviction or 

 judgment of said justice, shall have the right 

 to appeal to the Circuit Court for Somerset 

 county, which shall hear and determine the 

 same as other cases on appeal. 



Sec. 5. And he it enacted^ That this act shall 

 take effect upon the consent and ratification of 

 the provisions of this act by the Legislature of 

 the State of Virginia, as required by the com- 

 pact between the States of Virginia and Mary- 

 land, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty- 

 one. 



How effective. 



WORCESTER COUNTY. 



Chapter 214, Laws 1880, repeals Sections 2 and 

 4 of Chapter 277, Laws of 1876, relating to 

 Oysters in the loaters comprised loithin the 

 timits of Worcester County, and enacts fol- 

 loioing substitute therefor : 



Section 2. And be it enacted, That the clerk 

 of the Circuit Court for Worcester county may 

 issue to any citizen of said county a license to 

 take or catch oysters with rakes or tongs, from 

 the w^aters of Synepuxent bay and its tributa- 

 ries, until the lirst day of May next after the 

 issuing of said license : provided the apxjlicant 

 for said license shall satisfy said clerk by his 

 own oath or other sufficient proof that he is a 

 citizen of said county, and shall pay to said 

 clerk the sum of one dollar, to be paid by said 

 clerk to the County Commissioners of Worces- 

 ter county, to be expended in the procuring of 

 seed oysters to be planted in said bay as the 

 commissioners aforesaid may direct ; but no 

 person licensed as above, nor any otlier person, 

 shall take or remove any oysters from the 

 waters of said bay or its tributaries on any 

 Sunday or in the night at any season, nor during 

 the day from the first day of May to the first 

 day of September, or any shells from tlie natu- 

 ral rocks at any time ; provided that nothing 

 herein shall be construed to foi})id any person 



May issue li- 

 cense. 



S a t i s f y by 

 oath or proof. 



How con- 



strued. 



