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"Waters of the
Chesapeake.
Exemption.
In force.
Season for
shooting wild
fowl.
Penalty
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 54.
AN ACT to exempt all that portion of the waters of
the Chesapeake Bay, lying northward of a certain
line therein described, from the operation and
effects of sections one and three of article ninety-
eight, of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Wild Fowl," and to enact other sections to be in
force and operation in, on and over said waters.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all that part of the Chesapeake Bay and
its waters, lying northward of the following line, viz:
Beginning at the Light House on Turkey Point, in
Cecil county, and drawn westward to a point half a
mile north of the most northernly part of Spesutie
Island, thence continuing said line still westward,
within half a mile of, and north of the northern end
of said Island and the adjacent mainland, until it
reaches the shore in Harford county, at or near
Oakington, be and the same is hereby exempt and
released from the operation and force of sections one
and three of article ninety-eight of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws, title "Wild Fowl," and the follow-
ing sections enacted to be in force and operation
northward of the said line, in this section particu-
larly described.
SEC. 2. And he it enacted. That the season for shoot-
ing wild fowl northward of the line described in sec-
tion one of this Act, shall begin on the first day of
November in each and every year, and continue
until the thirty-first day of March next succeeding,
in each and every year hereafter, and it shall not be
lawful for any person to kill or shoot at wild fowl
northward of said line, (except from ashore) and south-
ward of a line drawn east from Point Concord Light
House in Harford county, to Carpenter's Point on the
western shore of Cecil county, at any other time, and
any person violating the provisions of this section shall,
on conviction thereof, he fined not less than fifty dol-
lars and not more than one hundred dollars for each.
offence.
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