1280 ARTICLE 99.

1927, ch. 340, sec. 8. 1929, ch. 459, sec. 8.

57. The Clerks of the Circuit Courts of Harford and Cecil Counties
shall, on the first day of June, 1927, and on the first day of each and
every month thereafter, transmit to the Comptroller of this State all
moneys received by them for the issuance of gunning rig licenses. Said
Clerk shall report to the 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 sink-box or sneak-boat, designating number of said
license and description of boat. Eight Hundred ($800) Dollars of the
amount so received from each of the said counties by the Comptroller shall
be placed to the credit of a separate fund to be known as the State Game
Protection Fund and shall be disbursed by the said State Comptroller from
time to time on warrants signed by the State Game Warden of Maryland
and shall be used for the purpose of paying the Ducking Police provided
for in Section 54 of this Article. The balance so received from Cecil
County shall be paid by the Comptroller to the County Treasurer of Cecil
County to be paid by him to the Ducking Police appointed for the pur-
pose of patrolling the Elk and Bohemia Rivers; and the balance collected
from Harford County shall be paid to the Treasurer of said county to be
used as the County Commissioners of said county may direct.

1927, ch. 340, sec. 9. 1929, ch. 459. sec. 9.

58. Any person convicted before any Justice of the Peace of this State
for violating any of the provisions of this sub-title, shall be fined not less
than Fifty ($50) Dollars, nor more than One Hundred ($100) Dollars and
costs for each and every offense, and shall stand committed to jail until
such fine and costs have been paid; and in addition to said fine and costs,
the Justice of the Peace shall order the officer making the arrest and secur-
ing the conviction to seize and hold in custody all vessels, crafts, sink-boxes,
sneak-boats, decoys and all other paraphernalia used in violation of the pro-
visions of this sub-title, and will exclude the gunning rig from the Flats for
three legal gunning days, which shall include such gunning days as said
gunning rig may have been excluded prior to the determination of the case.
Provided, however, in case of appeal, the rig shall be released, but in case
the court before whom Said appeal is heard sustains the decision of the Jus-
tice of the Peace, then said person or persons shall be fined double the
amount so imposed by said Justice of the Peace. All moneys received by
any Justice of the Peace or any Court shall be transmitted to the Game
Warden or State Comptroller on the first day of the month after fine is
received, to be credited to the State Game Protection Fund. ¹

Otter, Muskrat, Raccoon and Opossum.

1927, ch. 568, sec. 62. 1929, ch. 420. 1931, ch. 543, sec. 59. 1933, ch. 130, sec. 59.

59. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt any Muskrat within the

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 340 of acts of 1927 and sec. 2 of ch. 459 of acts of 1929 repealed all!
laws inconsistent therewith to extent of such inconsistency.