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and the first day of February following, shall be prima facie guilty of a
violation of this Section. Any person violating any of the provisions of this
Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction before
any Justice of the Peace of this State, shall be fined not less than fifty
dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each
offense, and each wild duck, goose, swan or brant so shot at, killed or had
in possession shall constitute a separate offense under this section; pro-
vided, however, that upon conviction the Court of Justice before whom
such conviction shall have been had may in its or his discretion impose
a single fine for each day or part of a day in which such violation of this
section occurred, such fine to be not less than $100.00 nor more than
$250.00 for every such day or part of a day, and any officer or other person
other than the Game Warden or Deputy Game Wardens or officer under
the Conservation Department receiving compensation, who shall procure
the conviction of any person for violating any provision or provisions of
this section, shall receive one-half of the fine recovered; the remaining
one-half shall be paid to the State Game Department or to the State Comp-
troller to be placed to the credit of the State Game Protection Fund to
be used as provided by law.1

An. Code, sec. 15. 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 kill-
ing 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 dollars nor more
than fifty dollars for each and every offense.

An. Code, sec. 16. 1910, ch. 251, sec. 4 (p. 336).

16. It shall be unlawful to fish with nets or in any other manner on
the Susquehanna Flats or in the waters of Romney Creek, in Harford
county, between the fifteenth day of October and the first day of April. That
part of the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries shall be known as the Susque-
hanna Flats which is contained within the following metes and bounds:
All that portion of the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries lying south of a
line drawn east from Concord Lighthouse, in Harford county, to Carpen-
ters Point, on the western shore of Cecil county, and north of a line
beginning at the lighthouse on Turkey Point, in Cecil county, and drawn
westerly to a point half a mile north of the northerly part of Spesutea
Island; thence continuing said line still westward, but at no time approach-
ing nearer than a half mile from the northern end of said island and the

1 Sec. 2 of ch. 13 of acts of 1924 repeals all laws inconsistent with said ch. 13 to the
extent of such inconsistency.