PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 979

dered to be sold, as above provided, may intervene by sworn
petition in the court of such conviction within ten days there-
after, and make claim to such boat or other property; and upon

affirmative proof to the satisfaction of the court of such owner-
ship and of the further facts that such owner or owners were,
After making due inquiry as above required, in fact without
knowledge or notice of any kind, direct or indirect, in advance

of the use made or intended to be made of such boat, guns or
paraphernalia, and did not, directly or indirectly, participate
therein or connive thereat, and did not, in person or by agent,
loan or rent or permit the use of such boat, guns or parapher-
nalia to any person or persons who, to his or their knowledge
or information, intended or were likely to violate the provisions
of this Section, or who had heretofore pursued wild fowl on the
waters of this State in boats, and did not in person or by agent
or employee act upon such boat as the operator or navigator
thereof, then and thereupon the said court shall strike out the
judgment of confiscation as to so much of said boat, guns or
paraphernalia as the court shall from the evidence affirmatively
find belongs to such bona fide innocent owner, and shall order
the sale only of the remaining share or shares and interest in
said boat, guns and other paraphernalia.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 16th, 1914.

CHAPTER 580.

AN ACT to prohibit any Minister of the Gospel or other person,
in Garrett County, who is now or may hereafter be authorized
under the laws of Maryland to perform the Marriage Cere-
mony, to give, directly or indirectly, any fee as an induce-
ment to any person to bring the person contemplating mar-
riage to him to perform the marriage ceremony.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be unlawful for any Minister of the Gospel,
or other person, in Garrett County, who under the laws of the
State of Maryland is now, or may hereafter be authorized to
perform the marriage ceremony, to give, either directly or in-
directly, or offer to give any money, present or reward, to any
hotel or railroad porter, or to any other person or persons, aa an
inducement to said hotel or railroad porter, or other person or