WILD FOWL—BIRDS AND GAME. 3053

adjudged to be confiscated or ordered to be sold, as above provided, may
intervene by sworn petition in the court of such conviction within ten days
thereafter, and make claim to such boat or other property; and upon
affirmative proof to the satisfaction of the court of such ownership and of
the further facts that such owner or owners were, after making due inquiry
as above required, in fact without knowledge or notice of any kind, direct
or indirect, in advance of the use made or intended to be made of such
boat, guns or paraphernalia, and did not, directly or indirectly, partici-
pate therein or connive thereat, and did not, in person or by agent, loan
or rent or permit the use of such boat, guns or paraphernalia to any person
or persons who, to his or their knowledge or information, intended or were
likely to violate the provisions of this Section, or who had heretofore pur-
sued wild fowl on the waters of this State in boats and did not in person
or by agent or employee act upon such boat as the operator or navigator
thereof, then and thereupon the said court shall strike out the judgment of
confiscation as to so much of said boat, guns or paraphernalia as the court
shall from the evidence affirmatively find belongs to such bona, fide inno-
cent owner, and shall order the sale only of the remaining share or shares
and interest in said boat, guns and other paraphernalia; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall apply to sink boxes nor to motor boats run-
ning with the wind while shooting over decoys, nor to retrieving or shoot-
ing wounded wild water fowl which have been wounded over decoys, if
said sink boxes and motor boats running with the wind while gunning
over decoys or retrieving ducks, wounded or killed over decoys occurs
northward of a line drawn east and west from Turkey Point, in Cecil
County, and Locust Point, in Harford County.1

An. Code, sec. 14. 1910, ch. 251, sec. 2 (p. 336). 1916, ch. 568. 1924, ch. 13.
14. It shall be unlawful to shoot, or kill, trap, pursue, hunt, take, cap-
ture, or attempt to trap, pursue, hunt, take, capture or kill, any wild duck,
goose, swan or brant 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 further be unlawful to have
in possession any such wild duck, goose, swan or brant between the tenth
day of February and the thirty-first day of October in each and every
year. No person or persons hunting, pursuing or gunning for any wild
fowl of any species in the waters of Cecil and Harford Counties, on that
part of the Chesapeake Bay lying northward of the line described in Sec-
tion 498, and southward of the line described in Section 499 of the Pub-
lic Local Laws of Harford County, as codified by Chapter 680 of the Acts
of 1916, shall use in connection with a hunting rig, a boat of dimensions
less than sixteen feet in length nor less than twenty inches at lowest point
in height between the first day of November, and the first day of Febru-
ary following, providing, however, boats of smaller dimensions may be
used in stationary booby or stick blinds. And any person or persons who
shall have in his or their possession a boat of less than the aforesaid dimen-
sions, on the Susquehanna Flats, between the said first day of November

1 Sec. 2 of act of 1916, ch. 542, repeals all laws inconsistent with said act.