WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

CHAPTER 29.

CHAP. 29.

A further additional supplement to an act entitled an act
for the preservation of wild fowl in the Potomac River,
and its tributary streams, passed at December session
eighteen hundred and thirty-two, chapter one hundred
and thirty-four.

Passed Mar. 18,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all cases hereafter when any credita-
ble white person shall make affidavit in substance that he
has good reason to suspect and does believe, that some
person or persons are engaged in violating the laws to
which this is a further supplement, it shall be the duty of
any justice of the peace before whom such affidavit is
made, to issue his warrant directed to any constable or the
sheriff of the county, commanding him to arrest and have
before him or some other justice of the peace of the State
of Maryland, any person or persons who may be found vio-
lating the laws of the State of Maryland for the preserva-
tion of wild fowl in the Potomac river and its tributary

be suspected by the said officer of intending to violate or

Justice of peace

to issue war-

rant against

persons violat-

ing the law in
regard to wild
fowl.

having violated said laws, and also to take into posses-
sion all vessels, boats, guns and apparatus, powder and
shot, which may be found in possession of the person or

officer to summon, if needed, a sufficient number of able
bodied inhabitants of the county to aid in carrying out
such warrant.

To take posses-

sion of all ves-
sels, &. c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of any officer to whom such warrant may be directed to
execute the same with all practicable speed, and in default
thereof, from neglect or remissness, he shall forfeit for each
and every failure to execute such warrant, the sum of fifty

Upon neglect to

execute war-
rant, to forfeit.

dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace for
the State of Maryland in the name of the said State, one
half for the use of the informer and the other half for the
use of the county.

How recovered.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for every offence com-
mitted against the provisions of this law, or of the existing
laws for the preservation of wild fowl in the Potomac river
and its tributary streams, the justice of the peace before
whom such offender or offenders may be brought, shall
upon conviction on proof of a violation of the law, entitled
an act for the preservation of wild fowl in the Potomac

Fine imposed.