PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 11Y1

shooting grounds or to prevent shooting over or gathering
wounded or dead wild fowl, in good faith, from boats propelled
only by oars, and not equipped with either sails or engines,
when so used within a reasonable distance from the shore; and
provided,

Second: That any person or persons other than those con-
victed of violating the provisions of this section who may own
in part or whole any boat, gun or paraphernalia adjudged to
be confiscated or ordered to be sold, as above provided, may
intervene by sworn petition in the court of such conviction
within ten days thereafter, and make claim to such boat or
other property; and upon affirmative proof to the satisfaction
of the court of such ownership and of the further facts that
such owner or owners were, after, making due inquiry as
above required, in fact without knowledge or notice of any
kind, direct or indirect, in advance of the use made or intended
to be made of such boat, guns or paraphernalia, and did not,
directly or indirectly, participate therein or connive thereat, and
did not, in person or by agent, loan or rent or permit the use
of such boat, guns or paraphernalia to any person or persons
who, to bis or their knowledge or information, intended or
were likely to violate the provisions of this section, or who had
heretofore pursued wild fowl on the waters of this State in
boats, and did not in person or by agent or employee act upon
such boat as the operator or navigator thereof, then and there-
upon the said court shall strike out the judgment of confisca-
tion as to so much of said boat, guns or paraphernalia as the
court shall from the evidence affirmatively find belongs to such
bona fide innocent owner, and shall order the sale only of the
remaining share or shares and interest in said boat, guns and
other paraphernalia.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its pasage.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 714.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Mayor and City Council of
Havre de Grace, Maryland, to contribute annually in their
discretion for the maintenance and support of the Havre de
Grace Hospital of Harford County, the sum of one thousand
dollars ($1,000), or so much thereof as they may in their
judgment think proper to contribute.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, That the Mayor and City Council
of Havre de Grace, Maryland, are hereby authorized and