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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel County," sub-title

Wild fowl.

"Wild Fowl," as repealed and re-enacted with amendments

by Chapter 582 of the Acts of 1892, be and the same are hereby

repealed and re-enacted with amendments, and to add a new

section to be designated as Section 261 A, the aforesaid section

to read as follows :

260. It shall not be lawful for any person to shoot at or

Days on which

shoot any ducks or wild fowl on or over the waters of West

to gun.

river or Rhode river and their creeks, from any booby blind

or bush blind, or from the shore of said rivers and creeks, ex-

cept on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays of each week.

261. Before any person shall place any booby blind or bush

Must have li-

blind on or upon said waters of West river and Rhode river

cense to
place blinds.

and shoot therefrom, he shall first obtain a license so to do

from the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County,

upon the payment of two dollars for the same, and a fee of fifty

cents to said Clerk for issuing the same ; and any person so

obtaining a license shall have the right over any other person

to renew his license from year to year; provided, he secured

a new license from the Clerk of said court on or before the

fifteenth day of May in each and every year; and provided,

further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to

prevent the owner of any blind properly licensed from ex-

tending the privilege to any person to shoot from said blind

on the day the owner thereof is allowed to shoot from the

same.

261 A. It shall not be lawful for any person to establish a

Blinds and de-

blind, after said blind has been licensed, at a point in said

coy ducks.

waters, nearer to said blind than five hundred yards nor fur-

ther than one hundred yards from low water mark on the

Maryland side bordering on said waters; and it shall not be

lawful for any person to put out decoy ducks within five hun-

dred yards of any blind and shoot over the same from the

natural shores of said waters.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the first day of May, 1904.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 487.

AN ACT to provide for the erection and equipment of a pub-

lic school house in Hyattsville, Prince George's County,

Maryland.