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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

any State or county officer authorized to execute warrants, and
to forfeiture and destruction by any justice of the peace before
whom such gun shall be produced.

15 K. No person shall, in this State, at any time, shoot at or

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in any manner kill or catch, in the night time, any of the birds
mentioned in the preceding sections of this Act, under a
penalty of not less than one ($1.00) dollar nor more than
twenty-five ($25.00) 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 possession on the night in question, in the
vicinity where such shooting occurred, either prior to or at the
time of, or after the shooting, such fact shall deemed prima
fads evidence of his having violated the provisions of this
section.

15 L. No person shall, in this State, at any time, use or have

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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
facie evidence that the same is possessed, or sold, or disposed
of with the intent, and for the purpose of shooting at or kill-
ing 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, as provided
in section 15 K of this Act.

15 M. No person shall, at any time, in this State, shoot at or

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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
roosting grounds, under a penalty of not less than than twenty-
five ($25.00) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dol-
lars for each offense.

15 N. No person shall, in this State, at any time, use any

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ferret or weasel for the purpose of hunting, capturing or kill-
ing any of the aforesaid game animals, under a penalty of not
less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than twenty-five ($25.00)
dollars for each offense, and under a further penalty of ten
($10.00) dollars for each such game animal so captured or killed.