FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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and any person convicted of such wilful and corrupt false

swearing shall suffer the penalty now provided by law to be

imposed upon persons convicted of the crime of perjury.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this

act shall apply to all common law and statutory misde-

meanors committed within the limits of Baltimore County

To what

which may by any law of this State now in force, or which

cases

may hereafter be enacted, be prosecuted by presentment or

applicable

indictment in the Circuit Court for said county, and the said

court shall have the power to impose the same fines and

and penalties upon conviction upon information under this

act as are now provided by law, or may hereafter be pro-

vided by law, to be imposed upon conviction for such

offenses upon presentment or indictment.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Effective.

Approved March 10th, 1892.

CHAPTER 78.

AN ACT to prohibit the use of explosives in the waters of

the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in the State of

Maryland, as a means of taking or catching fish.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That on and after the passage of this act it shall

Not lawful

be unlawful to explode any dynamite or other substance of

to use

like explosive nature in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay,

explosives
in Chesa-

or any of the tributaries thereof, within the limits of the

peake Bay

State of Maryland, for the purpose of taking or catching

fish thereby.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person violating

the provisions of the foregoing section, upon indictment and

conviction for the same in any Circuit Court for the county

or Criminal Court of Baltimore City wherein the offense

may have been committed, shall be fined not less than three

Penalty

hundred dollars and the cost of prosecution ; and upon

failure to pay the same shall be confined in the house of

correction for not less than one year.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all fines collected under

this act shall be paid one-half to the informer and the other

Effective.

half into the treasury of the State of Maryland.

Approved, March 10th, 1892.