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stake shall be established on or before October 10th, then said stake shall
be termed as a blind as hereinafter provided.

(b) No booby, brush or stake blind shall be licensed or erected in the
waters of Chester River and its tributaries within the jurisdiction of
Kent County except in those waters lying between Durding's Creek and
Deep Point; and no booby, brush or stake blind shall be licensed or erected
in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay within the jurisdiction of Kent
County between the north end of Wilson's Point on Trumpetington Farm
and the mouth of the Chester River.

(c) This section shall not apply to any person who has an established
licensed blind or blinds located in the waters of Anne Arundel County
or in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay opposite the shore line of said
county prior to January 1, 1927, and said licensee shall have the right
to renew said license on or before the first day of July of each year there-
after.

(d) No booby, brush or stake blind shall be licensed or erected in the
waters of Bohemia River and its tributaries, within the jurisdiction of
Cecil County.

This section and secs. 43 and 47 held not to justify extension of dividing line between
plaintiff's and defendant's property over defendant's land and thence over waters of
bay, in order to prevent erection of blind by defendant. Rights of State not involved.
Case not moot. Sheehy v. Thomas, 155 Md. 689.

Validity of secs. 41-48 sustained in Wampler v. LeCompte, 282 U. S. 172.

The provisions of secs. 41, 42, 45 and 47 are not arbitrary or unreasonable and do not
violate Federal Constitution. Wampler v. LeCompte, 159 Md. 222.

1927, ch. 568, sec. 40. 1929, ch. 366, sec. 40. 1985, ch. 359, sec. 41.

42. It shall be lawful in or over the waters to erect, set or maintain
a booby, brush or stake blind, and same shall be stationary; in which shall
be built a platform for the purpose of shooting from. It shall be unlawful
to erect, set or maintain any blind at a greater distance than 300 yards
from the natural shore, from which same may be erected. Said blinds
shall not be less than 500 yards apart measured in a straight line; provided,
however, that a blind or blinds on land when located at a distance of
more than fifty yards from natural shore shall not be less than 300 yards
apart measured in a straight line, and be it further provided, however,
it shall be unlawful in or over the waters of Baltimore County to erect, set
or maintain any blind at a greater distance than 150 yards from the
natural shore.

(a) It shall be unlawful on any of the rivers of this State for any per-
son to erect, set or maintain a blind a farther distance from the shore than
one-half of said river where said river is less than 600 yards in width, nor
shall any person place any blind on any of the rivers across any channel
where said channel runs near the center of said river.

(b) Provided, however, that in the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay
and in the tributaries of the Potomac River in Charles County and on the
waters of Baltimore County said blinds shall not be less than 250 yards
apart measured in a straight line. However, the 250 yards as provided
in Paragraph A of Section 47 shall not apply to the above sections.
See notes to sec. 41.

1927, ch. 568, sec. 41. 1929, ch. 366, sec. 41.

43. Section 42, relating to distance from shore, shall not apply to the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay opposite the shore line of Anne Arundel