232 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 130
ball at a single discharge, or to take an elk or deer in any
manner except through the method known as still hunting.
It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to shoot
at or kill, or wound or capture either an elk or deer while
same is taking refuge in or swimming through the waters
of any stream, pond or lake. It shall be unlawful for any
person to make use of a dog in hunting elk or deer and
every person who takes a dog into the woods, or who has
possession or control of a dog in the woods and uses same
for chasing, taking or killing an elk or deer, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
It shall be unlawful to set, lay or use any trap, snare,
net, deer lick or pitfall or to make use of any artificial
light, battery or other contrivance or device for the pur-
pose of hunting or killing of elk or deer except as permitted
by this/ Act.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to kill more
than one buck deer, with two or more points to one antler,
during any open season, as provided by Section 20 of
Article 99. It shall be unlawful to shoot, trap, pursue, or
kill, or gun or hunt for, any fawn or female deer at any
time within the limits of this State.
(e) Any person violating any of the provisions of Sec-
tion 73, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction before any Justice of the Peace of this State,
shall be fined three hundred ($300) Dollars and costs for
each and every offense. Any person who fails to pay the
fine so imposed shall stand committed to jail until the fine
and costs shall have been paid, but such imprisonment shall
not exceed ninety days for any one offense.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this Act
shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional and invalid, such
judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the re-
mainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to
the clause, sentence, paragraph, or section thereof, so
found unconstitutional and invalid.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts
of laws of the State of Maryland, general or local, incon-
sistent with the provisions of this Act, be and the1 same
are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1933.
Approved April 4, 1933.
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