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PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS. 
Justice of 
the peace 
to issue. 
Take pos- 
session. 
Hearing of 
offenders. 
Forfeiture. 
Shall sell. 
Not lawful 
justice of the peace of Calvert county, he shall forth- 
with issue his warrant directed to the sheriff, or any 
constable or military officer, requiring either of them 
to whom it may be directed to summon the posse 
comitatus , if necessary, and proceed forthwith to ar- 
rest the party or parties alleged to have been en- 
gaged in violating this law, and to seize and take 
possession of any canoe, boat or vessel, together 
with all their tackle and apparel, and any article on 
said boat at the time belonging to said party or par- 
ties and used by them in violating the law. 
Sec. 3. And be it enacted , That the sheriff, con- 
stable, or military officer who has made the arrest, 
shall forthwith bring the offender or offenders before 
some justice of the peace of the county for a hear- 
ing, and said justice of the peace shall either give 
the case an immediate hearing, or at the instance of 
the party shall appoint some early day, within the 
next five days thereafter, to hear the case, the party 
charged giving such good and sufficient bail as said 
justice shall require for his attendance; and on con- 
viction of the offender or offenders the said justice 
shall decree a forfeiture of the canoe, boat or vessel, 
together with all the tackle and apparel, and order 
the same to be sold by the officer making the arrest, 
who shall sell the same, on five days’ notice, to the 
highest bidder, subject to an appeal to the Circuit 
Court for Calvert county, and after the payment of 
all the expense attending the arrest and prosecution 
of the suit he shall retain one-fourth of the balance 
himself, distributing one-fourth among the parties 
assisting in making the arrest, and pay over the re- 
maining one-half to the School Fund of the county, 
to be used in the repair of old and the erection of 
new public school houses. 
Laws of 1878, Chapter 163. 
Section 1 . Be it enacted' by the General Assembly 
of Maryland , That it shall not be lawful for any 
person to take or catch oysters for sale with rakes, 
tongs or any other instrument whatever in the waters 
of Mill Creek, Back Creek or Saint John’s Creek, in 
Calvert county, for the period of three years from 
the passage of this act, except from land in said 
waters located and appropriated, or which may be 
