1200 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 723]

SEC. 6. When any person or persons shall have obtained a
license as provided in section 5 of this act, and shall have
erected a booby blind, stake blind, floating blind, sink box, or
artificial point of any description as hereinabove provided for;
and the same may have thereafter been destroyed or taken away
by ice or by any other causes beyond the control of the holder
or holders of said license, he or they shall have ten days from
the date of the loss or removal of the blind within which to
replace or restore the same without forfeiting or losing the "set"
or position in which the same formerly stood.

SEC. 7. All owners of riparian rights on the said waters of
Dickinson's Bay shall, by virtue of said ownership, be first enti-
tled to make a choice of the "set" or position in front of their
said property for the purpose of erecting and maintaining any
booby blind, stake blind, floating blind, sink box or artificial
point of any description, provided that said riparian owners
shall avail themselves of said choice of locality and clearly
mark the same within not less than twenty days prior to the
open season fixed by law for shooting wild fowl on the said
waters of Dickinson's Bay.

SEC. 8. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall
pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) and not more
than one hundred dollars ($100.00); said fines to be recovered
before a justice of the peace of Talbot county, or by indictment
in the Circuit Court for said county, and upon conviction in
default of payment of the fines imposed, together with cost,
shall be committed to the county jail for not less than ten days
nor more than sixty days, and the non-payment of each and
every fine shall be considered a separate offense within the
meaning thereof; one-half of all fines imposed shall go to the
informer.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 723.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 505 of the Laws of 1900, and Chap-
ter 189 of the Laws of 1904, in so far only as the same refer
to and affect the town of Trappe, Talbot county, and to
re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 505 of the Laws of 1900, and Chapter 189