610 WILD FOWL, BIRDS AND GAME. [ART. 99

offense, and every gun which is not so habitually fired from the
shoulder, as aforesaid, shall be liable to seizure by any State or
county officer authorized to execute warrants and the forfeiture
and destruction by any justice of the peace before whom such
gun shall be produced.

1898, ch. 206.

15 H. No person shall, in this State, at any time, shoot at or
in any manner kill or catch, in the night time, Fany of the birds
mentioned in the preceding sections of this sub-title, under a
penalty of not less than one ($1) dollar nor more than twenty-
five ($25) dollars for each bird so killed or caught; and if, at the
trial, it shall be proved that the person charged with shooting at
or the killing of said birds in the night time was at or about the
place where the shot was fired, and that he had a gun in his pos-
session on the night in question, in the vicinity where such shoot-
ing occurred, either prior to or at the time of, or after the
shooting, such fact shall be deemed prima fade evidence of his
having violated the provisions of this section.

Ibid,

15 i. No person shall, in this State, at any time, use or have
in his possession, or sell or dispose of in any manner, any big or
swivel gun, with the intent, or for the purpose of shooting at or
killing wild ducks, wild geese, wild swan, wild brant or other
water fowl, under a penalty of not less than fifty ($50) dollars
nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars for each offense, and
the possession or sale, or disposition, by any person, of any such
big or swivel gun in this State shall be deemed prima fade
evidence that the same is possessed, or sold, or disposed of with
the intent, and for the purpose of shooting at or killing such
birds in this State, and every gun shall be deemed a big gun, for
the purpose of this law, which is not habitually raised at arm's
length and fired from the shoulder.

Ibid.

15 E. No person shall, at any time, in this State, shoot at or
do any act or thing whatsoever with the intent or purpose of
frightening or driving wild ducks, wild geese, wild swan, wild
brant or other water fowl of any kind from their feeding or