WATER FOWL—BIRDS AND GAME 3601

resting and feeding areas of wild water fowl may be confiscated by any
officer of this State and delivered to the Game Warden.

Provided, however, it shall be lawful to hunt wild water fowl on the
waters of the Potomac River in Frederick County and Montgomery
County, and on the waters of the Monocacy River in Frederick County,
from a skiff or row boat propelled by oar or oars only. The clerk of the
Circuit Court of Frederick County and Montgomery County upon the
application of any resident of Frederick County or Montgomery County,
respectively, being the owner of any skiff or row boat as herein allowed to
be used in hunting of water fowl on the waters of the Potomac River in
Frederick and Montgomery Counties shall issue to said applicant a license
under the seal of his. court to gun for and shoot at water fowl from such
boat, the cost of which shall be Five ($5.00) Dollars for each and every
boat, and in addition to the moneys received from licenses aforesaid, the
Clerk of the Court shall collect and retain in lieu of all compensation, the
sum of fifty (50c) cents for issuing said license. Every licensee shall be
required to paint his name and license number on some prominent part
of said skiff or row boat in large, legible letters and numbers, to corre-
spond with said name and number of license issued to him. Said license
shall only be valid during the open season provided by law for the hunting
of water fowl in this State.

The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Frederick County and Montgomery
County shall, on the first day of June, 1931, and on the first day of each
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 Susque-
hanna Flats and the waters of Cecil County as herein defined.

(d) 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 possession
shall constitute a separate offense under this section.

1927, ch. 568, sec. 38.

40. 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