JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 724.

1153

AN ACT for the better protection of otter and muskrats
within Talbot County and the waters thereof.

Talbot Co.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be unlawful for any person within the limits
of Talbot County to shoot, trap or in any manner kill or have
in possession any otter or muskrat between the fifteenth day
of March and the first day of December, inclusive, in each and
every year.

Muskrats.
Unlawful to
kill, etc.,
within certain
time.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful
for any person within the limits of Talbot County, at any time
from sunset until one hour before sunrise of every night to
shoot, kill, or shoot at any otter or muskrat by means of any
artificial light.

Unlawful to
kill at night
by means of
artificial light.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person violating
either of the two preceding sections shall, on conviction thereof
before any justice of the peace of the election district of Tal-
bot county in which said violation shall occur, be fined ten
dollars for each offense, to which shall be added the costs of
the prosecution, and the boat, gun and other apparatus used
by said offender shall be forfeited and sold by the officer making
the arrest, and the officer making said sale shall receive from
the proceeds of such sale the sum of ten dollars, and one-half
of all such fines, and the proceeds of the forfeiture shall be paid
to the informer and the other half to the game wardens, and
in cases when the offender does not pay the fine imposed the
costs of prosecution shall be paid from the sale of the forfeited
property.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 725.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
409, 410 and 41 1 of Chapter six hundred and thirteen of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its
January Session A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety.

Penalty for
violation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 409, 410 and 411 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January Session,
A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an Act to repeal

Washington
County.
Williamsport.