170 WILD FOWL. [ART. 99.
license so obtained shall be limited, said limitation to be stated
in said license to the open season for shooting the aforesaid
birds and wild fowl, shall not be transferable under penalty of
forfeiture of the same and a fine of not more than twenty-five
dollars, shall expire one year from the date of its issue; any
person desiring such license shall apply for same either in
person or by letter to said clerk of the court, and shall pay
therefor the sum of ten dollars, which amount shall be paid by
the said clerk to the board of county school commissioners of
said county in which said license was issued, for the use of the
public schools thereof, and, in addition thereto, such persons
securing said license shall pay to the said clerk the sum of one
dollar as a fee for issuing said license; said clerk shall prepare
and keep a book substantially bound of such blank license,
with stub thereto, and when such license is issued by him, a
full memorandum thereof shall be entered on the stub of such
license, which stub shall remain in said book and be a public
record of said office; and before such license shall be delivered
or mailed to the applicant therefor, the said clerks shall write
his name and address both on said license and on said stub.
Any non-resident who violates any of the provisions of this
section shall de deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof in the circuit court of such county, or before
any justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for
any of the counties bordering on said river, shall be fined five
dollars for each wild goose, wild duck, snipe, ortolan or reed
bird or other birds or wild fowl so shot or taken, whether found
or not found in his possession, one-half of said fine to go to the
informer, if any, and the other or whole, as the case may be, to
the board of school commissioners of the county wherein said
offense was tried, for the benefit of the public schools thereof;
and upon the failure of the offender to pay said fine and all
costs incident to said trial, said offender shall be committed by
the court or justice who imposed said fine, to the county jail in
the county wherein said offense was tried, for the period of ten
days.
1904, ch. 509. 1906, ch. 471 1/2, sec. 2.
62. Before any person shall push, paddle or convey by boat
any other person not a bona fide resident of the State of Mary-
land over said river, its tributaries or the marshes of said river
or tributaries, for the purpose of hunting, trapping or killing
said birds or wild fowl, he shall first require such non-resident
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