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or in any manner destroy or injure any growing grain, shrubs,
herbs, roots, vines or vegetables, or shall break, cut, pull off,
destroy or injure any part of any house or other building, or of
any wall or fence, or any ornament or other valuable article
attached to any house or other building, wall or fence in said
county, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the dis-
cretion of the court.

WILD FOWL.

203. It shall not be lawful for any person, by day or night, to
navigate or paddle any open skiff, canoe or open boat of any
description, on board of which may be any offensive weapon,
gun, musket, fowling-piece or pistol, within the region usually
known as included from Hearn's Strait, in Somerset county, to
the upper side of Holland's Straits, within fifty yards of any
blind, for shooting fowl, with intent to shoot or molest any wild
fowl within the region aforesaid.

204. Every person offending against the provisions of the labt
preceding section shall be subject to a penalty of ton dollars, to
be recovered before a justice of the peace for said county by
action of debt in the name of the State, one-half to the informer
and the other half to the county.

205. The discovering or finding of any of the weapons de-
scribed in section 203 of this article in any open skiff, canoe, or
open boat as aforesaid, within fifty yards of any blind for shoot-
ing fowl, within the region aforesaid, shall in all cases be deemed
prima facie evidence of an intent to shoot or molest said wild
fowls.

WITNESSES.

206. Each witness summoned to attend the Circuit Court for
said county shall be entitled to receive, for each day he shall
attend, the sum of seventy-five cents, and an allowance of four
cents per mile for every mile his place of residence shall be
distant from the place of holding the court, to be computed for
each day's attendance.

WOOD CORDER.

207. The Governor shall, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, biennially appoint a suitable person as a corder of

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