1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 162.
Shooting with

large gun prohibi-

ted

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-
ful for any person either in the day or at night, to shoot
at wild fowl in any of the waters of the rivers, creeks and
narrows aforesaid, with any gun, from a skiff, float or other
boat, which may not be conveniently fired at arms length,
without a rest, and any person violating the provisions of
this act, shall be taken before some justice of the peace

Penalty

of said county, whose duty it shall be to require of such
offender to surrender such gun to him, the said justice, to
be sold; the proceeds of which sale the said justice shall
pay over the one half to the informer, the other half to the

refusal of such offender to surrender such gun, it shall be
the duty of the said justice to sentence him to imprison-
ment in the county jail, for thirty days, unless he sooner
deliver up said gun, according to the provisions of this
act.

CHAPTER 162.

Passed Mar.13, 1833

An additional Supplement to an act, entitled, an act to In-
corporate the Port Deposit and Chesapeake Turnpike
Road company, passed at December Session, eighteen hun-
dred and twenty-seven, chapter two hundred.

Time for meeting

extended

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the period limited in the supplement to which
this is an additional supplement, for the meeting of the
Stockholders, be and the same is hereby extended to the
first Monday in May, in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-six, and that the same Stockholders are hereby au-
thorised and empowered to meet at any time or times to
be by them or a majority of them determined, previous to
the first Monday in May, in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-six, to perform and discharge the duties required of
them by the act to which this is an additional supplement.

Clause repealed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the first
section of the act to which this is an additional supple-
ment which refers to the amount which must be subscribed
before the work can be commenced, be, and the same is
hereby repealed.

Subscription re-

quired to com-

mence

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the amount to be sub-
scribed before the work is commenced shall be two thou-