ART. 15. ] WILD FOWL AND GAME.

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21. No person shall gun for or after wild water-fowl, or shoot at
or kill the same, northward of the line named and described in the
first section of this act, but three days in each week, until the first
day of January, during the season for shooting wild fowl as fixed
by the second section of this act, and those days prior to the first
day of January shall be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; and on
and after the first day of January shall be Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, and Saturday, until the end of the season for shooting wild
fowl as aforesaid; and each of said days shall comprehend the time
intervening between one hour before sunrise A. si. and half an hour
after sunset P. M of each day and no more, and is not to include

1376, c 169, s 6
Time limited
for gunning
north of said
hue

any part or period of a night; and any person, on conviction of a
violation of this section, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars,
and not more than one hundred dollars.

Penalty.

22. No owner, master, hirer, borrower, employee of any owner,
or other person, shall use or employ any sink-box, or sneak-boat of
any description whatever, for the purpose of shooting at wild water-
fowl therefrom, northward of the line named and described in section
16 hereof, without first obtaining a license to so use and employ
the same as is hereinafter provided.

1872, c 64, s 7
License for
owners, etc, of
sink-box or
sneak-boat

23. The clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford county, and the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil count}, shall upon the applica-
tion of any resident of the State of Maryland, being the owner of
any sink-box, craft or sneak-boat, such as is allowed by this act to
be used and employed in shooting at wild water-fowl therefrom;
and giving satisfactory evidence to said clerk that the said applicant
is a resident of the State of Maryland, and is the bond fide owner
of the sink-box, craft, or sneak-boat, grant a license under the seal of
his court, to such applicant to gun after and shoot at wild water-
fowl from such sink-box or sneak-boat northward of the line named
and described in first section of this act from the first day of Novem-
ber in each and every year to the thirty-first day of March next

1876, c 169, s 8
Application for,
and grant of
license

succeeding thereafter in each and every year; provided that such
license shall not authorize any person using such sink-box or sneak-
boat to gun after or shoot at wild water-fowl therefrom within a less
distance than half a mile from any shore in Harford or Cecil county,
or southward of the line particularly described in the first section
of this act.

Proviso.

24:. Every applicant, before obtaining such license, shall pay to
the clerk of the Circuit Court, to which he may apply for the same,
the following rates, viz: for a sink-box, twenty dollars, and for a
sneak-boat five dollars, for each and every gunning season, as fixed
by the second section of this act, and it shall be the duty of each

1872, c. 54, s 9
Cost of license.

and every person obtaining a license, to exhibit the same whenever
called upon by any officer of the State, or any other person author-
ized to demand the same, or who may be empowered to enforce the
provisions of this act, and every sink-box and sneak-boat used and
employed in gunning after wild water-fowl, shall be licensed as re-

To exhibit
license.