EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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more than ninety days in the jail of Allegany County, or both

fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

113C. Any member of an election board, or any registration

officer, chairman of county committee, return judge or election

Failure to per-
form duties.

supervisor, who shall fail to do and perform any of the duties

required of him under the provisions of this Act, shall, upon

indictment and conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,

and be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more

than two hundred dollars, or confinement in the jail of Alle-

gany County for not less than thirty days nor more than six

months, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the

court.

113D. No person, except those passing to and from the

polls shall be allowed within twenty-five feet of the polls at

Polling place

any primary election, and not more than six persons desiring

limits.

to cast their votes shall be allowed within said limits at any

time, and it shall be the duty of the election officers to strictly

enforce this section; and any person violating the provisions

of this section shall be, upon conviction, adjudged guilty of a

misdemeanor, and be subject to a fine of not less than ten dol-

lars and not more than twenty-five dollars, or confinement in

the county jail for not more than thirty days, or both fine and

imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 509.

AN ACT to regulate the hunting, shooting or trapping of wild

geese, wild duck, snipe, ortolan, reedbird, muskrat and all

other birds and wild fowl on the Patuxent river, its tribu-

taries, and the marshes of said river and its tributaries.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That it shall not be lawful for any person not a bona fide

Non-resident

resident of the State of Maryland to hunt, shoot or trap within

gunners to
procure li-

the State, upon the waters of the Patuxent river, its tributaries,

cense.

or marshes of said river or tributaries, any wild goose, wild

duck, snipe or ortolan, reedbird or birds or wild fowl of any

description, at any season of the year, unless such non-resident

person shall have first obtained from the Clerk of the Circuit

Court of one of the counties bordering on said river a license