ART. 99] PATUXENT AND TRIBUTARIES. 919

goose, wild duck, snipe, ortolan, reedbird or other birds or wild fowl
without the written permission of the owner of the land adjacent to
such waters or marshes; said right or permission to extend to and em-
brace such portions of said waters and marshes as lie between the lands
of the adjacent proprietor and the middle thread of the main channel
of said river, upon extending the river frontage of such proprietor at
right angles with the course of said main channel to the thread thereof,
under a fine of not less than five dollars or more than twenty-five dol-
lars for each violation of this section, and the cost of any proceeding
to enforce the same, which may be recovered in the circuit court or
before a justice of the peace of the county in which such violation
occurred; one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer, if any, and
the remainder or whole thereof, as the case may be, to the board of
county school commissioners of such county, for the use of the public
schools thereof; and upon conviction and failure to pay the fine im-
posed and cost of the proceeding, the person so convicted shall be com-
mitted by the court or justice who imposed said fine to the county jail
for a period of ten days.

See section 66.

See article 27, section 233.

1914. ch. 315.

64A.* No person unless a bona fide resident of the State of Mary-
land, shall shoot or trap upon the waters of the Patuxent River, or any
of its tributaries or any of the marshes of said river or tributaries, any
wild goose, wild, duck, snipe, ortolan, reed bird or other birds or wild
fowl without the written permission of the owner of the land adjacent
to such water or marshes; said right or permission to extend to and
embrace such portion' of said waters and marshes as lie between the
lands of adjacent proprietor and the middle thread of the main channel
of said river, upon extending the river frontage of such proprietor at
right angles with the course of said main channel to the thread thereof,
under a fine of not less than five dollars, or more than twenty-five dol-
lars for each violation of the Act, and the cost of any proceeding to
enforce the same, which may be recorded in the Circuit Court or before
a justice of the peace of the County in which such violation occurred;
one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer, if any. and the remain-
der or the whole thereof, as the case may be, to the Board of County
School Commissioners of such County, for the use of the public schools
thereof; and upon conviction and failure to pay the fine imposed, and
the cost of proceeding, the person so convicted shall bo committed by

*Apparently the act of 1914, chapter 315, was intended as a substitute for sec-
tions 60 to 64 and section 66, but in view of the situation explained in the footnote
to those sections and of the fact that the editor does not attempt to determine
when statutes are impliedly repealed, that being a question for the courts, both
sections 60 to 64 and section 66 (as they remain after the act of 1914, chapter
314), and the act of 1914, chapter 315, are codified.