ART. 99] WILD FOWL. 2201

feeding or roosting grounds of said water-fowl, or elsewhere, from
any vessel, boat, float, canoe, or any craft of any kind whatever.
See sec. 13.

1904, art. 99. sec. 2. 1888. art. 99, sec. 2. 1860, art. 98. sec. 2. 1860, ch. 109, sec. 2.

2. No person shall at any time, in, on or over the waters of the
State, shoot at or shoot any water-fowl from any boody-blind, or arti-
ficial point erected at a greater distance than one hundred yards from
the natural shore from which the same may be extended.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1888, art. 99, sec. 3. 1860, art. 98, sec. 3. 1860, ch. 109,
sec. 12. 1890, ch. 239.

3. No person shall at any time shoot at or shoot any water-fowl
flying about their feeding grounds or elsewhere over the waters afore-
said, from vessels, boat, float, canoe or craft of any kind, contrary to
the provisions of this article.
See sec. 13.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1888, art. 99, sec. 4. 1860, art. 98, sec. 4. 1860, ch. 109, sec. 3

4. If any person shall violate any of the provisions of the three
preceding sections, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall pay a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars,
to be recovered by action of debt in the name of the State before a jus-
tice of the peace of the county where the offense is committed, or by
indictment in the circuit court for said county.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1888, art. 99, sec. 5. 1860. art. 98, sec. 4. 1860, ch. 109, sec. 4.

5. Any person aiding or abetting another by furnishing a boat or
float of any description, or gun or ammunition, to be used in violation
of sections 1, 2 or 3 of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and shall be dealt with and fined as if he had violated them
himself.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1888, art. 99, sec. 6. 1860, art. 98, sec. 6. 1860, ch. 109.
sec. 5. 1890, ch. 351.

6. Any officer of the State fishery force, sheriff, constable or com-
missioned militia officer of the county wherein the provisions of this
article relating to water-fowl may be violated, who shall be satisfied
either upon his own view or information received of any other person,
whether on oath or not, that any one has violated the said provisions,
is authorized and empowered to arrest and take into custody such
person so offending, and the boatmen or other persons found on board
of the vessel, boat, float, canoe or craft employed to convey such
offender for the purpose of shooting at or killing wild ducks or wild
fowl of any description contrary to the provisions of this article, and
shall seize ard take into his possession the said vessel, boat, float, canoe
or craft, and the earn or guns, ammunition and decoy ducks in the same
or in the use or possession of the offender or offenders.

See sec. 57.

As to the state fishery force, see art. 72, sec. 34, et seq.