PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1169

amendments under the sub-title "Charter," and to repeal sec-
tions 657B, 735, 737, 738, 745A to 745F, both inclusive, 826,
833A, and 833B of said article, sub-title "Miscellaneous Local
Laws."

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 713.

AN ACT to repeal section 1 of Chapter 251 of the Acts of 1910,
entitled "An Act for the further protection of wild fowl in
the State of Maryland, and re-enact same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 1 of Chapter 251 of the Acts of 1910, entitled
"An Act for the further protection of wild fowl in the State of
Maryland, be repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as
to read as follows:

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be unlawful to purposely or unnecessarily dis-
turb on their feeding grounds or when bedded in the waters
of this State, except as hereinafter provided, or to pursue,
kill or shoot at, any wild fowl in or from any boat of any
description within the limits of the State of Maryland, except
as hereinafter provided, or to pursue, shoot or gather any
wounded or dead ducks, geese, swan or brant in any boat pro-
pelled by or equipped with sail or engines of any kind within
the said limits, except within the waters of the Chesapeake
Bay north of Poole's Island and exceeding the distance of one
mile from the Western Shore of said Chesapeake Bay.

And it shall be unlawful for the owner or owners of any
boat propelled by or equipped with sail or engines of any kind,
or of any share or interest in such boat, to use or to permit
the use of such boat for any of the acts above prohibited, or
to loan or hire such boat at any time between the 15th day of
October of any year and the 1st day of April in the then next
ensuing year, to any person or persons without making due
inquiry into the purpose of those applying for the use of such
boat and becoming satisfied that those applying for the use of
such boat intend to use the same exclusively for other purposes
than the violations of the provisions of this act, and that such
persons are not equipped with and do not place in such boats
any guns or ammunition suitable for shooting wild fowl.

Each and every person on board of any boat by or from which
wild fowl shall be unnecessarily disturbed or in which wild