WATER FOWL—BIRDS AND GAME 3607

killing Rallidae or Rail, Sora or Reed Birds, without first procuring a
license from the Clerk of the Court of the County in which he or they
reside, for which he shall pay the sum of Two Dollars ($2.00) ; and in
addition to the license fee so received, the Clerk issuing same shall collect
and retain the sum of Fifty Cents (50c) in lieu of all other compensation;
Two Dollars ($2.00) of said amount to be forwarded to the Comptroller
of the State, the first of each and every month, to be placed to the credit
of The State Game Protection Fund. Each and every license shall expire
December 1st after date of issuance and every person obtaining such
license shall paint the license number on each side of the bow of the boat
or skiff to be used for the purpose of pushing or paddling, in figures not
less than two inches high, and of such a character and color that the same
may be easily read. No person not a bona fide resident of the State of
Maryland shall be entitled to have a license to push or paddle issued to
him by the Clerk of the Court.

Any person convicted before any Justice of the Peace of this State for
violating any of the provisions of this sub-title, for which a specific pen-
alty is not otherwise provided, shall be fined not less than Fifty Dollars
($50.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for "each and
every offense.

Susquehanna Flats.

1927, ch. 340, sec. 1. 1929, ch. 459, sec. 1.

51. For the purpose of this sub-title, all the part of the Chesapeake
Bay and its waters lying within the following lines shall be known as the
"Susquehanna Flats," more briefly referred to herein as the Flats.

All that portion of the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries lying south of
a line drawn east from Concord Lighthouse, in Harford County, to Car-
penters Point, on the western shore of Cecil County, and north of a line
beginning at the lighthouse on Turkey Point, in Cecil County, and drawn
westerly to a point half a mile north of the northerly part of Spesutia
Island; thence continuing said line still westward, but at no time approach-
ing nearer than half of a mile from the northern end of said island and
the adjacent mainland, until it reaches the Harford County shore, at or
near Oakington.

The Game Warden may, when he deems advisable, mark certain points
of the lines herein defined by buoys.

1927, ch. 340, sec. 2.

52. For the purposes of this sub-title, a "gunning rig" is defined as a
craft, boat or boats or sink box, customarily used or intended to be used in
connection with sink-box shooting, or a flat bottom bateau or boat with bush
or canvas blinds (commonly known as a sneak-boat or bush-whacking out-
fit) which shall be without power, except oars, and may be engaged in
shooting or gunning over decoys. No boat used as a sneak-boat or for
bushwhack shall be of dimensions less than sixteen (16) feet in "length,
nor less than twenty (20) inches at the lowest point in height .

1927, ch. 340, sec. 3. 1929, ch. 459, sec.3. 1935, ch. 559.

53. It shall be unlawful at any time, either in the day or night, to
hunt, pursue, shoot or kill any water fowl in or over the Flats from any