The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
Public Local Laws.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER LOG.

AN ACT 10 repeal chapter 3S4, ofthc Acts pass.
ed at January Session, eighteen hundred and
seyenty-tonr, relating to "Wid Fowl" and to
enact the following in lieu thereof and in lieu
of section sixteen OF the original Act.
SECTION !. BE il enacted by Mc Geae,m 4Ss,o,-
Jy Of Nd'yIdnd, That chapter So, of the Act
passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred
and seventy four, relating 10 "Wild Fowl, he,
and the same is hereby repealed, and the follow
ing is enacted in lieu thereof, and in lieu Of see
ton sixteen of the original Act:
SEC. III. From and after the passage Ofthis Act
and every two years thereafter, the Governor
shall appoint, with the advice and consent otthc
Senate 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
cr to 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 shall have power
to arrest with or without warrant, upon their
own view, or upon credible information, all per-
sons violating any of the provisions of said orig
inal 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 proyi-
| sions 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 "wld fowl" which monies
! shall be distributed as follows: At the end of
| each 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, (f
| either has received a larger amount than the
| othcrD shall pay over TO the other such sum
| as Will 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
| him us aforesaid to the two Special Police APP
| pointed from said county, each receiving an
| equal share; and the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for 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 Spccil Police
| shall, within sixty days after his appointment,
| file with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the
county from which he is appointed, a bond with
surcues to be 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 its supplements; and the possession
of any wild ducks, between the first OF April and
the thrty-tirst of October, in any year, shall be
| prma tacie evidence of the violation of the pro-
hibition of said original Acts and its several sup
| PIGMENTS, by the person or persons in whose
possession said ducks may have been found, and
the offender or offenders shall be fined in the
| discretion of the Court, not less than five dol
lars nor more than one hundred dollars, and the
| fund, to be divided equally between said two
counties, and to be disposed of as here in provid-
| ed.
Approved March, 1890
MILTON Y. KIDD
Chief Clerk House of Delegates.
EUGENE HIGGINS,
ap:a Secretary of the Senate.