The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-23
Public Local Laws.
Published ny AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER 4Sl.

AN ACT to repeal chapter Isl, the Acts pass
'd al January Session, eighteen hundred and
scycnty-four, relating to "Wild Fowl, )" and to
enact the following in lieu thereof and in lien
Of section sixteen of the original Act
SECTION |. Re il cHacitd by tie General .lss,,,-
MY 81 NhWUd, That chapter Ssh of the Act
passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred
and seventy four, relating to "Wid Fowl" be-
and the same is hereby repealed, and the follow
ing is enacted in lieu thereof and in lieu of sec
tion sixteen Of the original Act
SEC 10 From and after the passage Ofths Act
and every two years thereafter, the Governor
shall appoint, with the advice and consent ofthc
Senate, Il Board of Special Police who shall hold
their offices until their successors shall qualify
or during the pleasure of the Governor, the said
Board Of Special Police shall consist of two citi-
zens of Hartford and two citizens of Cecil county;
the said Board of Special Police shall have pow
or 10 appoint as many deputies, to be chosen
from among those who have taken out license
under the provisions of this Act, as in their
Judgment may be necessary; the said Board of
special Police and its deputies shallh power
10 arrest, with or without warrant, upon their
own view, or upon credible information, all per-
sons violating any Of the provisions Of said orig
maj Act, or any Of its supplements and to carry
such person or persons before any Justice of the
Peace, to be dealt with according TO the prov-
>iOns Of said Act and supplements; and the said
Board OF Special Police shall be paid for their
services the monies, and no other, received by
the Clerks Of the Circuit Courts for Hartford
and Cecil counties, for licenses issued for the
privilege OF shooting ''wid fowl, +" which monies
shall be distributed as follows: At the end of
elch cunning season the Clerks aforesaid shall
each certify TO the other the amount received by
each for Issuing the licenses aforesaid and the
Clerk who has received the larger amount Gf
either has received larger amount than the
other) shall pay over TO the other such n sum
as VIII render the amounts in the hands of both
equal; then the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Hartford county shall pay the sum received by
linn as aforesaid to the two Special Police APP
pointed from said county, each receiving an
equal share and the Clerk of the Circuit Court
Tor Cecil county, shall, in like manner, pay the
money received by him as aforesaid to the Spe-
cial Police appointed from Cecil county; that
each member of said Board of Specil Police
snail, within sixty days after his appointment,
lie with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the
county from which he is appointed, bond with
saretieS 10 he approved by said Clerk, in the
penalty OF one thousand dollars, for the faithful
performance OF his duties under the provisions of
said Act and It's SUPPLEMENTS and possession
nl any Wild ducks, between the first of April and
me lhirtN-hrsi OF October in any year, shall lie
prima tacic evidence of the violation of the pro.
hibiton of said original Acts and its several sup
PIGMENTS, ny The person or persons in whose
possession said ducks may have been found, and
the offender or offenders shall he fined, in the
discretion of the Court, NOT less than five dol
lars nor more than one hundred dollars, and the
said funds for said license shall he 4 blended
fund, 10 be divided equally between said two
counties, and to he disposed of rs here in provid-
ed
Approved March, 1880
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates
EUGENE HIGGINS,
ap'I Secretary Of the Senate.