1278 ARTICLE 99.

It shall be unlawful to kill water fowl on the Flats in excess of the bag
limit allowed by the laws of Maryland. Any officer charged with the
duty of enforcing the law, shall have free access to all gunning rigs and
any gunning rig that shall have on board more than the prescribed bag
limit, shall be removed at once from the Flats and not allowed to return
during three gunning days, and the gunners shall be subjected to such
additional fines and penalties as are hereinafter set forth, or otherwise
provided by law.

It shall be unlawful for any gunning rig in any one day to kill or have
in possession more than the bag limit prescribed by law for four hunters.

It shall be unlawful for any person to be on said waters designated as
the Susquehanna Flats on any day except the legal gunning day, on any
vessel or craft on which are connected or in tow any hunting paraphernalia
which is ordinarily used for the hunting of water fowl; provided, however,
that for the purpose of securing a berth for the legal gunning days, as.
herein defined, crafts or hunting outfits may, on the evening preceding
the legal gunning day, "use the main channel, between 6 P. M. and 12
o'clock "Midnight, " to reach the waters above a line from Point Concord
Lighthouse in Harford County to Stump's Point in Cecil County, and
also use the main channel to reach the waters below a line from Locust
Point in Harford County to Turkey Point in Cecil County. No person
shall cross these lines until 3: 15 A. M. of the legal gunning days. ¹

1927. ch. 340, sec. 4.

53. Any person, or their assigns, who is a bona fide owner of land
bounding upon the Chesapeake Bay or the Northeast River adjacent to
the lines as herein provided, may in the months of October or November
in each year, select and mark any point on their shore as reserved for their
gunning during the season of or immediately following said selection or
marking as aforesaid; and thereafter such owner or his assigns shall have
during said season exclusive right to station a gunning rig or craft, or set
decoys, and gun within one-quarter (1/4) mile from shore, which said one-
quarter mile line shall run at right angles to the shore line from the point
so designated or selected by said land owner.

1927, ch. 340, sec. 5. 1929, ch. 450, sec. 5.

54. The Governor of this State shall every two years with the advice
and consent of the Senate, appoint two ducking police for Cecil County
and one ducking police for the Elk and Bohemia Rivers and two ducking
police for Harford County, who shall also be appointed by the Game War-
den, as Deputy Wardens, and shall be compelled to report to the Game War-
den and to enforce the conservation laws of this State under the supervi-
sion of the Game Warden. Such ducking police and deputy wardens so
appointed by the Governor, shall not receive a salary from the State or
Counties, but shall be paid the sum of Four Hundred ($400) Dollars each,.

¹ Sec. 2. ch. 559 of acts of 1935 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.