ART. 99] WILD FOWL. 2205

court of such conviction within ten days thereafter, and make claim to
such boat or other property; and upon affirmative proof, to the satis-
faction 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 his 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 thereupon the said court shall strike out the
judgment of confiscation as to so much of said boat, guns or parapher-
nalia 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 an.l interest in said boat, guns and other
paraphernalia.

1910, ch. 251, sec-. 2 (p. 336).

14. It shall be unlawful to shoot, except in Anne Arundel county,
at or kill any duck, goose, swan or brant within the limits of the State
of Maryland between the tenth day of April and the first day of Novem-
ber in each and every year, and it shall further be unlawful to have in
possession any such duck, goose, swan or brant between the fifteenth
day of April and the first day of November in each and every year;
provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful, except in Dorchester
county, to shoot at or kill or have in possession teal or other marsh duck
during the month of September in each and every year. Any person
violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every duck,
goose, swan or brant so killed or had in possession.

1910, ch. 251, sec. 3 (p. 336).

15. It shall be unlawful to shoot any wild fowl on Sundays through-
out the year, and it shall be unlawful to net or trap ducks in any man-
ner at any time during the year in the State of Maryland, or to employ
dynamite in any manner whatsoever for the purpose of capturing or
killing any species of wild fowl; and it shall further be unlawful in said
State to shoot at or kill any wild duck, swan, goose or brant at any time
or in any manner with a rifle, or to fire a rifle in and about places where
wild duck, swan, goose or brant are congregated. Any person violating
any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dol-
lars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense.