160 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 97

CHAPTER 97.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section Eight
of Article Thirty-eight of the Code of Public Local Laws
of the State of Maryland, title "Cecil County, " sub-title
"Birds and Game, " as amended by Chapter 715 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1908, and to re-
enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 38 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, title "Cecil County, " sub-title "Birds and Game, "
as amended by Chapter 715 of the Acts of 1908, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so
as to read as follows:

Section 38. It shall not be lawful for any person or per-
sons to hunt, chase, shoot at, shoot, trap, kill or in any manner
take or destroy any quail, partridge, pheasant, woodcock, snipe,
railbird, reed bird, swamp, black bird, wild rabbit, crow bill
duck, teal or summer duck, or squirrel or to have in his or her
possession any such birds, rabbit or wild duck herein men-
tioned in Cecil County, without the same are to be liberated
for breeding purposes, except during the seasons hereinafter
enumerated, to wit: For quail, grouse, pheasant, partridges,
woodcock, wild rabbit, from November 10th to December the
twenty-fourth, and for railbirds, reed bird, swamp blackbird
and marsh plover, from September the first to December the
first; and for squirrels, from August the twenty-fifth to October
twenty-fifth; and for crow bill ducks and other marsh ducks
from November the first to January the thirty-first, both
dates included, provided, however, these ducks shall not
be hunted, shot at, or killed before the first day of
November in the Elk River below a line drawn from
Plum Point to Locust Point on said River, or beyond the
mouth of any of the small creeks flowing into the same, from
any boat, vessel or craft of any kind; and it shall not be lawful
for any person, company or corporation to sell or offer to sell,
or expose for sale any of the birds or game, except rail birds,,
reed birds, wild rabbit or ducks mentioned in this section at
any season of the year, but it shall be lawful for any person
to shoot or destroy, at any time, any kind of blackbird over or
feeding upon the grain fields, any person, firm or corporation
convicted of violating any of the provisions of this Section
shall be subjected to a fine of $10. 00 for the first offense and