EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

925

of the State of Maryland, in and for any of the counties
bordering on said river, of a violation of this section, shall
pay a fine of five dollars for each and every wild goose, wild
duck, ortolan, rail or reed bird killed by him or found in his
possession, one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer,
if any, and the remainder or the whole, as the case may be,
to the Board of County School Commissioners of the county
in which the trial is had, for the use of the public schools
thereof, after deducting all cost incident to such trial and

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conviction; and on the failure to pay such fine such offender
shall be committed by the court or justice of the peace who
imposed said fine to the county jail of the county in which
such conviction was had, for ten days.

5. And be it enacted, That no person, unless a bona fide

Fine or im-
prisonment.

resident of the State of Maryland, shall shoot or trap iipon
the waters of the Patuxent river or any of its tributaries, or
any of the marshes of said river or tributaries, any wild
goose, wild duck, snipe, ortolan, reed bird or other birds or
wild fowl without the written permission of the owner of the
land adjacent to such waters or marshes, said right or per-
mission to extend to and embrace such portion of said waters
and marshes as lie between the lands of the adjacent pro-
prietor and the middle thread of the main channel of said
river, upon extending the river frontage of such proprietor
at right angles with the course of said main channel to the
thread thereof, under a fine of not less than five dollars nor
more than twenty-five dollars for each violation of this Act,
and the cost of any proceeding to enforce the same, which
may be recovered in the Circuit court or before a justice of
the peace of the county in which such violation occurred ;
one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer, if any, and
the remainder or whole thereof, as the case may be, to the
Board of County School Commissioners of such county, for

Written
permission
of owner of
land
necessary.

the use of the public schools thereof, and upon conviction
and failure to pay the fine imposed and cost of the proced-
ings, the person so convicted shall be committed by the
court or justice who imposed said fine to the county jail for
a period of ten days; and no person shall shoot or hunt the
game hereinbefore mentioned with steam, gasoline, naphtha
or other motor launches under the penalties hereinbefore
described.

Fine imposed.