LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1839.

Dually remain, in the treasury, of the sum of three thousand
five hundred dollars, appropriated by the law to which this is
a supplement, for the education of the deaf and dumb, shall be
applied to the education of such indigent blind children, in
the manner pointed out in the first section of the said act of
eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter one hundred and
seventy-three, and that the governor shall be, and he is hereby
authorized to draw on the same accordingly.
AN ACT, entitled, a further additional Supplement to an Act, entitled, an
Act for the preservation of Wild Fowl in the Potomac River and its
tributary streams, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
thirty-two, chapter one hundred and thirty-four. — 1.839, ch. 275.

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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases hereafter when any credible white person
shall make affidavit in substance that he has good reason to
suspect and does believe that some person or persons are en-
gaged in violating the laws to which this is a further supple-
ment, it shall be the duty of any justice of the peace before
whom such affidavit is made, to issue his warrant directed to
any constable or the sheriff of the county, commanding him to
arrest and have before him or some other justice of the peace
of the state of Maryland, any person or persons who may be
found violating the laws of the state of Maryland, for the pre-
servation of wild fowl in the Potomac river and its tributary
streams, or who from circumstances or information may be sus-
pected by the said officer of intending to violate, or having
violated said laws, and also to take into possession all vessels,
boats, guns and apparatus, powder and shot, which may be
found in possession of the person or persons so seized, and to
this purpose commanding said officer to summon if need, a suf-
ficient number of able-bodied inhabitants of the county to aid
in carrying out such warrant.

Justices to
issue war-
rants to
arrest per-
sons sus-
pected of
violating
the law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of any
officer to whom such warrant may be directed, to execute the
same with all practicable speed, and in default thereof from
neglect or remissness, he shall forfeit for each and every
failure to execute such warrant, the sum of fifty dollars, to be
recovered before any justice of the peace for the state of Mary-
land, in the name of the said state, one-half for the use of the
informer and the other half for the use of the county.

Officer to
execute
writ with
all speed,
or forfeit.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for every offence committed
against the provisions of this law, or of the existing laws for
the preservation of wild fowl in the Potomac river and its
tributary streams, the justice of the peace before whom such
offender or offenders may be brought, shall upon conviction on
proof of a violation of the laws, entitled, an act for the preser-
vation of wild fowl in the Potomac river and its tributary

Penalty.