1270 ARTICLE 99.

and every month thereafter, transmit to the Comptroller of this State all
moneys received by him for the issuance of the aforesaid licenses; said
moneys so received by the Comptroller shall be placed to the credit of the
State Game Protection Fund; said Clerk shall report to the State Game
Warden the first of each and every month the name and address of each
licensee to whom he has issued license the preceding month for a skiff or
row boat, designating number of said license and description of said boat,
(c) It shall be lawful to use a sink box, sink boat or sneak boat in and

over the waters of the Elk and Sassafras Rivers as legalized by the local
Acts of Cecil County prior to 1927; however, it shall be unlawful to use
a sneak boat in or over any of the waters of this State except on the Sus-
quehanna Flats and the waters of Cecil County as herein defined.

(j) Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be

deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction before any Justice

of the Peace of this State, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50. 00)
nor more than one hundred dollars ($100. 00) for each and every offense
and each wild duck, goose, swan or brant so shot at, killed or had in posses-
sion shall constitute a separate offense under this section.

1927. cil. 568, sec. 38.

39. It shall be unlawful, purposely or unnecessarily, to disturb in the
waters of this State, or to hunt any water fowl in or from any boat of any

description within the limits of the State of Maryland, or to hunt or
gather any wounded or dead ducks, geese, swan or brant in any boat pro-
pelled by or equipped with sail or engines of any kind within the said
limits.

(a) It shall be unlawful for the owner of any boat propelled by or
equipped with sail or engines of any kind, or of any share or interest in
such boat, to use or permit the use of such boat for any of the acts above
prohibited, or to loan or hire such boat at any time to any person without
making due inquiry into the purpose of those applying for the use of such
boat and becoming satisfied that those applying for the use of such boat
intend to use the same exclusively for other purposes than the violation of
the provisions of this Section, and that such persons are not equipped with
and do not place in such boats any guns or ammunition suitable for shoot-
ing water fowl.

(b) If any such power boat impelled by sail or engines of any descrip-
tion be found in or near the waters where water fowl are then and there
using or bedding, having on board guns or other paraphernalia commonly

employed in the hunting of water fowl, or if any shots shall be fired from
any such boat at or in the vicinity of water fowl where bedded in the
waters aforesaid, or if any such boat propelled by engine or sail shall be
proven to have moved in the direction of such water fowl so bedded, for
purpose of causing such water fowl to fly from the place or waters in which

they shall have been then and there bedded, such fact or facts, or any of

them, shall be accepted as prima, facie evidence of an intentional violation