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be confiscated and the person to whom it was issued, prosecuted for viola-
tion of this sub-title. Said license shall only be valid from November 1st
to January 31st following the date of issuance, and it shall be the duty
of every person obtaining a license to exhibit the same whenever called
upon by any officer of this State or any other person who shall demand to
see the same.

Each and every applicant for such license shall, make oath before the
Clerk of the Court, authorized to issue the same, that he is a bona fide
resident of this State and that he will not employ on a gunning rig any
person except a bona fide resident of this State and that he will comply
with all the provisions of this Article, regulating the hunting of wild
water fowl in the territory designated as the Flats, and every person to
whom such license may be granted shall be required to paint the name or
number of the sink-box or sneak-boat on some prominent part thereof in
large legible letters or numbers, as the case may be, to correspond with
said name or number of license issued to him.

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

58. 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 55 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.

59. 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-