898 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

1886, ch. 437

385. 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 marking as afore-
said; and thereafter such owner, or his 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 for 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.

1873, ch. 54.

386. 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 hun-
dred dollars for each offence.

1876, ch 166.

387. No person shall gun for or after wild water-fowl, or
shoot at or kill the same, northward of the line named and
described in section 380, but three days in each week, until the
first day of January, during the season for shooting wild fowl, as
fixed by section 381; and those days, prior to the first day of
January, shall be Monday, "Wednesday and Friday; and on and
after the first day of January, shall be Monday, Wednesday,
Friday and Saturday, until the end of the season for shooting