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TALBOT COUNTY.

lawful for any person or persons, by day or night, to navigate
or paddle any open skiff, canoe or open boat of any descrip-
tion, on board of which open skiff, canoe or open boat afore-
said, may be any offensive weapon, gun, musket, fowling piece
or pistol, within the region usually known as included from
Hearn's Straits, in Somerset county, to the upper side of Hol-
land's Straits, within fifty yards of any blind for shooting fowl,
with intent to shoot or molest any wild fowl or fowls within
the region aforesaid.

Penalty for
violating.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the discovering or finding
of any offensive weapon, gun, musket, fowling piece or pistol
in any open skiff, canoe or open boat as aforesaid, within fifty
yards of any blind for shooting fowl, shall, in all cases within
the region aforesaid, be deemed prima facie evidence of intent
to shoot or molest said wild fowls, and shall subject the offen-
der in each and every case, to a penalty of ten dollars, to be
recovered before the district court of Somerset county, by
action of debt, in the name of the state, or qui tam action, one-
half of which penalty shall be for the benefit of the informer,
and the remaining half shall be paid over to the commissioners
of Somerset county, for the benefit of said county.

Witness.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the informer shall be
deemed a competent witness in each and every prosecution
under this act.

WITNESSES.
See title 'Jurors,' ante page 2187.

TALBOT COUNTY.
BOUNDARIES.— 1695, ch. 13; 1706, ch. 3.

ASSESSMENT.
AM ACT for the Re-valuation of Real and Personal Property in Talbot
County.— 1831, ch. 118.

Meeting to
re-assess,
&c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners for Talbot county, should they deem
it necessary, be, and they are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to meet at Easton, the county town of said county, as
soon as may be practicable after the passage of this act, and
there proceed to re-value and re-assess the real and personal
property within said county, agreeably to the provisions of an
act passed at November session, eighteen hundred and twelve,
entitled, an act for the valuation of real and personal property
in the several counties of this state.
See 1812, ch. 191, ante page 1631.