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    1837 Md. Laws 1837
    (1837)
    Ch. 101, An Act for the Preservation of Wild Fowl in the Waters of Smith's Island and its Vicinity, in Somerset County, §§ 1-2: Prohibited shooting fowl from on board an open skiff, canoe, or open boat with any offensive weapon, gun, musket, fowling piece, or pistol in the region know as Hearn's Straits in Somerset County, within fifty yards of any blind for shooting fowl. Violators subject to ten dollar fine.
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    1879 Md. Laws 173
    (1876)
    Wild Fowl and Game § 23: The clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford county, and the clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil county, shall upon the application of any resident of the State of Maryland, being the owner of any sink-box, craft or sneak-boat, such as is allowed by this act to be used and employed in shooting at wild water fowl therefrom; and giving satisfactory evidence to said clerk that the said applicant is a resident of the State of Maryland, and is the bona fide owner of the sink-box, craft, or sneak-boat, grant a license under the seal of his court, to such applicant to gun after and shoot at wild water-fowl from such sink-box or sneak-boat northward of the line named and described in first section of this act from the first day of November in each and every year to the thirty-first day of March next succeeding thereafter in each and every year; provided that such license shall not authorize any person using such sink-box or sneak-boat to gun after or shoot at wild water-fowl therefrom within a less distance than half a mile from any shore in Harford or Cecil County, or southward of the line particularly described in the first section of this act.
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    1874 Md. Laws 224
    (1874)
    An Act To Protect Wild Fowl in Worcester County, ch. 164, §§ 1-2: § 1... no person shall, during the hours intervening between twilight at evening and twilight of the following morning, shoot or kill, or shoot at, capture with nets, by fire-light, any wild fowl within the limits of Worcester County. § 2. ...no person shall, at any time, kill or shoot at any wild fowl within the limits of Worcester County, with any swivel or pivot gun, or any kind of gun which cannot be conveniently discharged from the shoulder at arms length and without a rest.
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    28 Archives of Maryland 349 (1745)
    (1745)
    prohibits firehunting by non-residents
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    3 Archives of Maryland 255
    (1648)
    licenses previously issued for "killing of Wild Hoggs [e]mploying Indians to kill deere with Gunnes" both to residents and non-residents of Maryland "hath occasioned some inconvenience & hath given great offence to divers of the Inhabitants of this Province," all existing licenses were repealed