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regulating the taking or catching oysters, and shall 
be acquitted or discharged by the Circuit Court or 
by a justice of the peace for Somerset county, the 
county commissioners shall pay the legal costs of de- 
fending the prosecution to such individual or the 
owner of such vessel. 
Sec. 99. Any justice of the peace, upon the oath 
of any credible white witness, may issue a warrant 
to any sheriff, constable or other officer, civil or mil- 
itary, and to all persons licensed under the provisions 
of this law, to make all arrests and seizures neces- 
sary to carry the same into effect. 
Sec. 100. The clerk of the Circuit Court shall be 
entitled to fifty cents each for every license granted 
under this law. 
Sec. 101. He shall pay the money arising from 
the issuing of said licenses to the Treasurer of the 
school fund of said county, on or before the first 
Monday of June in each year, and his official bond 
shall be liable for the prompt payment thereof. 
Laws of 1878, Chapter 373. 
Section 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
of Maryland , That it shall be unlawful to take or 
catch oysters with scoops, drags or dredges, or such 
like instruments, in the waters of the Wicomico 
Elver in Somerset county, on the east side of a 
straight line from the mouth of Kock Creek to Clay 
Island Light House, and any person violating this 
act shall be liable to be tried before any justice of the 
peace upon being arrested on warrant from any jus- 
tice of the peace of said county, and upon conviction 
shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor 
more than fifty dollars for every such offence, and 
shall also forfeit the boat or vessel used or employed 
in such violation of this act; and the said boat or 
vessel so forfeited and condemned shall be sold by 
the officer making the seizure or arrests, upon ten 
days’ notice of such sale, for cash, together with the 
sails and furniture of said boat or vessel and the 
implements on board said boat used in such illegal 
taking of oysters; and one-half the proceeds of said 
sale shall be paid to the informer and party making 
the said seizure, and the balance shall be paid to the 
use of the public schools of said county; and any 
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scoops, &c. 
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for viola- 
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