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Penalty. 
Actual res- 
idents. 
Penalty. 
Fines — to 
whom paid 
Not lawful 
Seine. 
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS. 
for any such violation shall also be fined not less 
than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars 
for each offence, with costs, and in any prosecution 
for violating any of the provisions of this section it 
shall not be necessary to prove that the offender was 
taking up oysters, but only that he was at work in 
the waters within the bushes, stakes or buoys afore- 
said. 
Sec. 5. And be it enacted , That no person other 
than actual residents of the State of Maryland shall 
catch clams or terrapins, or haul for or catch fish 
with any seine of any description in the waters of 
Sinepuxent Bay or its tributaries within the limits 
of Worcester county, and all persons violating any 
of the provisions of this section, upon indictment 
and conviction thereof, shall forfeit the boats and all 
seines and other instruments used in said violation, 
be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty 
dollars, for each offence with costs, and be imprisoned 
until same are paid, but said imprisonment shall in 
no case continue more than thirty days. 
Sec. 7. And be it enacted , That the net proceeds of 
all sales of property forfeited and fines imposed un- 
der this act shall be paid to the Treasury of the 
Board of County School Commissioners of Worces- 
ter county, and used as a part of the school fund of 
said county. 
Laws of 1878, Chapter 64, repeals Section 6 of 
Chapter 277 of Laws of 1876 and re-enacts the 
same , as follows : 
Laws of 1878, Chapter 64. 
6. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons 
to haul or fish in any of the waters of Synepuxent 
Bay or its tributaries comprised within the limits 
of “ Worcester county,” with any seine containing 
meshes less than one and a half inches square, un- 
less said seine shall be less than one hundred fath- 
oms in length. 
Sub-Sec. 6. Any person who shall violate any of 
the provisions of the preceding section shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 
tion thereof before a justice of the peace, or upon 
indictment and conviction in the Circuit Court foi 
