452                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 285

CHAPTER 284
(Senate Bill 349)

AN ACT to repeal a,nd re-enact, with amendments, Section 149 of
Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Natural Resources", sub-title "Water fowl and Migratory
Birds", allowing the possession of dead wild fowl after the close
of the season.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 149 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition), title "Natural Resources", sub-title "Water
fowl and Migratory Birds", be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

149. (Open Season.) It shall be unlawful to hunt any wild
waterfowl within the limits of the State of Maryland between the
first day of February and the thirty-first day of October in each
and every year, both dates inclusive, [and it shall be further unlaw-
ful to have in possession any dead wild water fowl 90 days after
the close of the season to be used as food, provided such fowl is
drawn and plucked,] and it shall be unlawful to hunt any of the
game birds herein mentioned on Sunday.

It shall be unlawful to hunt wild water fowl at any time or in
any manner on either the land or the waters within the boundary
lines of the Blackwater Migratory Birds Refuge located in Dorches-
ter County or to hunt wild water fowl on either land or water
from a blind or otherwise within 100 yards of the boundary lines
of said refuge.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 11, 1955.

CHAPTER 285
(Senate Bill 353)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 142 of
Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Disturbance of the
Public Peace", enlarging the jurisdiction in which the crime of
disturbing the public peace shall be prosecuted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 142 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Disturb-
ance of the Public Peace", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.