482 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

closed season for the same respectively provided by this Section.
And any person convicted in the Circuit Court or before any
justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for any of
the Counties bordering on said river of a violation of this Sec-
tion, 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 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 and benefit of the
public schools thereof, after deducting all cost incident to such
trial and conviction; and of 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.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That no person unless a bona fide
resident of the State of Maryland, shall shoot or trap upon 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 with-
out the written permission of the owner of the land adjacent
to such water or marshes; said right or permission to extend to
and embrace such portion of said waters and marshes as lie be-
tween the lands of adjacent proprietor 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, or more than twenty-five dollars for each vio-
lation of the Act, and the cost of any proceeding to enforce the
same, which may be recorded in the Circuit Court or before a
justice of the peace of the County in which such violation oc-
curred ; one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer, if any,
and the remainder or the whole thereof, as the case may be, to
the Board of County School Commissioners of such County, for
the use of the public schools thereof; and upon conviction and
failure to pay the fine imposed, and the cost of proceeding, the
person so convicted shall be committed by the Court or justice of
the peace who imposed said fine to the County jail for a period
of 10 days.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all bona fide members of any
hunting club incorporated and organized on or before the first
day of January, 1912, under the laws of the State of Maryland,
and owning or leasing real estate therein within one mile of the