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SECTION 1. Section 58 of chapter 131 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting the following words after "thereof.":- "Provided further that any persons hunting migratory game birds from a watercraft or any boat or floating device propelled by sail, steam, naphtha, gasoline, electricity, compressed air or similar motive power, shall not discharge any firearm within one thousand feet of the coastal shoreline." SECTION 2. Section 65 of chapter 131 of the General Law is hereby amended by inserting the following words after "blind":- ", provided further that any water craft used for said hunting purposes shall not be within one thousand feet of the coastal shoreline;"
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