WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 180O.

AN ACT to amend chapter fifty-four of the acts of

1872, entitled "An Act to exempt all that por-

tion of the waters of the Chesapeake Bay lying

northward of a certain line therein described from

the operation and effect of sections one and three

of article ninety eight of the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, title ' Wild Fowl,' and to enact other

sections to be in force and operation in, on and

over said waters, by adding an additional section

thereto regulating the issuing of licenses to Sneak

Boats.

SECTION 1. Be it enaded by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the following section be and

the same is hereby added to chapter fifty-four of

the acts passed at the January session, eighteen hun-

dred and seventy-two, entitled " An act to exempt

all that portion of the waters of the Chesapeake

Section added.

bay lying northward of a certain line therein de-

scribed from the operation and effecct of sections one

and three of article ninety-eight of the Code of

Public General Laws, title 'Wild Fowl,'" and to

enact other sections to be in force and operation in,

on and over said waters, to follow section eight, and

to read as follows:

SECTION 8 A. The sneak boat, such as is allowed

Kind of boat

by this act, as is specified in section eight of this act,

allowed.

shall be a flat-bottom batteau or other boat, with

bush or canvas blinds, and shall be engaged bona

fide in shooting or gunning over decoys, and no

other boat shall be licensed as a sneak boat .; no

Bailing boat or skiff', or other boat engaged in hunt-

ing or shooting crippled ducks, or in purloining

ducks that have been killed and are drilling, shall

be licensed as a sneak boat; and the special police

appointed by this act are authorized to arrest any

person or persons who may be discovered in the act

of hunting or shooting crippled ducks, or in pur-

Arrest for
purloining.

loining ducks that have been killed by other per-

sons having a proper license to shoot, as well as other

persons violating the provisions of this section, and

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