ART. 8.] WILD FOWL. 901

1872. ch. 54.

393. Every applicant for a license to use a sink box or sneak
boat, shall be required to make oath before the clerk of the court
authorized to issue the same, that he is a bona fide resident of the
State, and that he will obey and comply with all the provisions
of this sub-title of this article, regulating shooting of wild water.
fowl northward of the line named and described in section 380;
and every person to whom such license may be granted shall be
required to paint the name or number of his 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 in such license; and any person who shall use or employ
a sink box or sneak boat without having first obtained a license
as required by section 389, shall, on conviction thereof before a
justice of the peace, be fined not less than fifty dollars, and not
more than one hundred dollars, for each and every violation
thereof, one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer, and the
other half to the school commissioners of the county in which
said offence may be committed, for school purposes.

Ibid.

394. The clerk of the circuit court who shall issue a license,
in compliance with the requirements of section 389, shall be enti-
tled to charge and receive seventy-five cents for issuing the same;
and the clerks of the said circuit courts shall each keep a register
of the name and residences of the persons to whom he shall issue
licenses, also the name and number of each sink-box and sneak
boat, for the use of which he may issue a license, and also a cor-
rect account of the sum of money paid by each person receiving
a license; and the official bond of said clerks shall be liable, re-
spectively, for the monies received by them for such licenses.

Ibid.

395. The board of special police, appointed by section 398,
are constituted officers of this State, for the purpose of enforcing
the provisions of sections 380 to 402, inclusive, by arresting and
taking before any judge of any circuit court or any justice of the
peace, all persons who may be engaged in violating, or who may
lave violated any of the provisions of said sections, and of seizing