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	sink boxes in the waters of the Sassafras River, in
	said counties, west of a line drawn from Pond's Bar,
	on the Kent side, to Ordinary Point Bar, on the Ce-
	cil side, from the first day of November in each year
	until the thirty-first day of March next succeeding, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week, upon obtaining a license so to do, as provided in sec-
	tion two of this act ; provided, that no shooting from
	sink boxes shall be allowed within one hundred yards
	of any shore or point on the Cecil side of eaid river,
	unless with the consent of the owner or tenant of
	said shore or point.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the clerks of the
	circuit courts for Cecil and Kent counties shall re-
	spectively, upon application of any bona fide resi- dent of Cecil or Kent counties, being the owner of
	any sink box, and desiring to obtain a license to use
	the same for shooting wild fowl in the waters herein
	recited, shall, on such application, grant, a license
	under the seal of their respective courts to such ap-	Clerk to
	plicant, specifying the name and residence of the	giant license.
	applicant, the name or number of the sink box,
	the waters embraced in said license, the penalty for
	its violation, and the time for which such license is
	issued ; and shall be entitled to charge and receive
	fifty cents for issuing the same ; provided, that at
	the time of issuing the same said applicant shall pay to said clerks, respectively, the sum of ten dollars
	for each and every gunning season, as specified in
	section one of this act.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That every applicant
	for a license shall be required to make oath before
	the clerk of the circuit court for Cecil or Kent
	county that he is a bona fide resident of Cecil or
	Kent county respectively, and that he will obey and comply with all the provisions of this act; and every
	person to whom such license may be granted shall
	be required to paint the number or name of his	Required to
	sink box on some prominent part thereof, to corres-	make oath.
	pond with the number or name iu said license ; and
	no owner, hirer, borrower or other person shall, use
	or employ any sink box of any description whatever,
	for the purpose of shooting at wild water-fowl there-
	from, in the waters described in section one of this