1380 HARFORD COUNTY. [ART. 13.

craft of any kind or description whatever, within one quarter of
a mile of any shore in Harford or Cecil counties; and any
person violating this section shall, on conviction thereof, be
subject to a penalty for each offence of not less than fifty dollars
and not more than one hundred dollars.

1886, ch. 487.

283. Any person owning land bordering upon the Chesapeake
bay, within the limits aforesaid, or his assigns, may, in the
months of October or November, in each year, select and mark
any one point on his shore, as reserved for his gunning during
the season of, or immediately following said selecting and mark-
ing as aforesaid; and thereafter such owner, or their assigns, shall
have, during said season, the exclusive right to station crafts, gun,
or set decoys within the one-quarter of a mile line from the shore,
as now allowed; and also, within the additional space between
said quarter of a mile line and a line distant one-half a mile from
any shore in Harford county, three hundred yards wide on each
side of a line drawn at right angle to the shore line, from the
point selected as aforesaid, to said half a mile line; and any
person violating this section, shall, on conviction thereof, before
any justice of the peace or circuit court of the county where such,
violation occurs, be subject to a penalty for each offence of not
less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, in the
discretion of said justice or court.

1872, ch. 64.

284. No person shall kill, or shoot at wild water-fowl, in, on
or over the waters of the Chesapeake bay, from any boat, box or
vessel of any kind or description whatever, with any big or
swivel gun, or any kind of gun which cannot be conveniently
discharged from the shoulder at arms-length, and without a rest;
and any person violating this section, on conviction thereof, shall
pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars for each offence.

1876, ch. 169.

285. No person shall gun for or after wild water-fowl, or
shoot at or kill the same, northward of the line named and de-