The Democratic advocate., 1878-05-18
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS
PASSED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND
AT JANUARY SESSION, 1878.
Published by Authority.
WILD OWL.
AN ANn
CHAPTER 259.

WILD FOWL.
AN ACT
To repeal Section five of an Act entitled an
Act to exempt all that portion of the waters
OF the Chesapeake Bay, therein described
from the effect and operation of Sections
one and three of Article ninety-eiebt Of the
Code of Public General Laws. title ssWiId
Fowl, passed at January Session, eighteen
hundred dandseventy-two, Chapter fiftg-four
and to re-enact the same with amendment
and also to repeal Section twenty.one Of
the same Article, as repealed and re-enact.
ed by Act passed at the January Session.
eighteen hundred and seventy-six, Chanter
one hundred and sixty whine, and to re enact
the same also with amendment.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That section five. Of
the act of January session, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, chapter ffty-four, as amend.
ing article ninety eight of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Wild Fowl" be. and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:
Section .. That no person shall kill or shoot
at wild water fowl in, on or over the waters of
the Chesapeake bay, from any boat, box or
vessel OF any kind or description whatever.
with any big or swivel gun, or any kind of gun
weighing more than fifteen pounds, and any
person violating this section, on conviction
thereof, shall pay fine of not less than one
hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred
dollars for each offence
Section 2. And be it also enacted. That
section twenty-one of article ninety eight of
the Code of Public General Laws, same title.
wild Fowl, as repealed and re-enacted by
act OF January session, eighteen hundred and
seventy-six, chapter one hundred and sixty
nine, be, and the same is hereby repealed
and re enacted so as to read as follows
Section2l. That no person holding a license
TO gun fer or after wild water fowl, shall. dur
ing the cunning season, as fixed by this act,
be allowed to anchor or otherwise make sta
tlonary, any sink box, sneak boat or any other
vessel or craft on the waters lying northward of
the line named in section one of this act, on
any Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday or Sunday
prior to the first daY of January of said gun
ming season, and on and after the said first day
of January, on any Tuesday, Thursday or Sun.
day, nor until the hour of three o clock a. M.
on the morning of the day next succeeding
each of said days above specified, and no per.
son holding license as above described, and
engaged in cunning for wild water fowl, shall
go on or over said waters with sink box, sneak
boat or other vessel or craft, before the hour
of three o'clock, a. m. on the morning of the
Na1 HSAb suSCetuiNB eacu OF SalQ DAYS. as
above specified; and any person violating this
section shall be fined not less than twenty-five
nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered
before Justice of the Peace, as debts of like
amount are recoverable, one-half thereof to
be paid to the officer making the arrest and
the other halfto those assisting in making the
arrest.
Section 8. Be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect and be in operation from the date
of its passage.
FErTER S. H0RLITZELL,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
Approved, April 5, 1878.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an act passed the General
Assembly of Maryland, at the January ses-
sion, 1878.
MuToS Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates.
AUGUSTUS GAssAwAY,
Secretary of the Senate.