The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-05-21
Public Local Laws.
CHAPTER lOG.
BTISHED BY AUTHORITY.


AN ACT to repeal chapter 3S4, of The Acts pass
ed ut January Session, eighteen hundred and
seyenty-four, relating to "Wild Fowl and to
enact the following in lieu thereof, and in lieu
of section sixteen of the original Act.
SECTION 1. BE il eaocted by he GcHcym .iSs,m-
bly, Of Maryland, That chapter 3S1 of the Act
passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred
and seventy four, relating TO "Wild Fowl" be,
and the same is hereby repealed, and the follow
ing is enacted in lieu thereof and in lieu of see
tion sixteen of the original Act
SEC. 16. From and after the passage of his Act
and every two years thereafter, the Governor
shall appoint, with the advice and consent ofthc
Senate a 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 cit-
zens of Hartford and two citizens of Cecil county;
the said Board of Special Police shall have pow
ser 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
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
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 provi-
sinns OF said Act and supplements; and the said
Board of Special Police shall he paid for their
seryice7 the monies, and no other, received by
and Cecil counties, for licenses issued for the
privilege OF shooting wild fowl, " which monies
shall be distributed as follows: Al the end Of
each cunning season the Clerks aforesaid shall
each certify 10 the other the amount received by
each for ISSUING the licenses aforesaid and the
Clerk who has received the larger amount, tif
either has received a larger amount than the
nther,J shall pay over 10 the other such sum
as will render the amounts in the hands of both
equal; then the Clerk of the Circuit Court Tor
Hartford county shall pay the sum received 10y
him as aforesaid to the Two Special Police ap-
pointed from said county, each receiving an
equal share; and the Clerk Of the Cncuit Cont
for Cecil county, shall, in like manner pay the
money received by him ~ aforesaid IN the Spe
cia Police appointed from Cecil county that
each member Of said Board of Spccii Police
shall, within sixty days after his appointment
file with the Clerk of the Circuit Cont for the
county from which he is appointed, bond with
suretica 10 be approved by said Clerk, in the
penalty of one thousand dollars for the faithful
performance of his duties under he provisions of
said Act and its supplements; and thepossrssinn
al any lid ducks, between he first oi April and
The thirtv-Iirst Of October, in any year. shall be
prima iace evidence of the violation Of the pro-
hibtion Of said original Acts aud its several sup.
pemcnia, by 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 live dol
lars nor more than one hundred dollars, and the
said funds for said license shall he u blended
fund.- TO he divided equally between said two
counties, and To he disposed Of us here in prnvid.
ed.
Approved March, 1890
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates
EUGENE HIGGINS,
apo Secretary of the Senate.