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the shoulder. Such wild water fowl may be taken on land
or on water and the aid of a dog or dogs or of decoys may be
employed. It shall be unlawful to hunt, pursue, or kill any
wild water fowl of any species with or by means of any
automatic-loading or hand-operated repeating shot-gun capa-
ble of holding more than three shells, the magazine of which
has not been cut off or plugged with a one-piece metal or
wooden filler incapable of removal through the loading end
thereof so as to reduce the capacity of said gun to not more
than three shells at any one time in the magazine and cham-
ber combined, unless Federal regulations provide otherwise.
It shall be unlawful to have a rifle in possession while hunt-
ing wild waterfowl. It shall be unlawful to use more than
ten live decoys on any one property at any one time. No
water fowl, except crippled birds not otherwise retrievable,
shall be shot while resting on water or land. It shall be
unlawful to use any airplane, sink box or sink boat, or float-
ing device towed by a power boat or a sail boat for the
purpose of hunting wild water fowl therefrom; provided,
however, it shall be lawful to use sneak boat or bushwack
rig on the Susquehanna Flats and on the waters of the Elk
and Sassafras Rivers in Cecil County and on the waters of
the Potomac and Monocacy Rivers in Frederick County and
on the waters of the Potomac River in Montgomery and
Washington Counties. It shall be unlawful to use any decoy,
sneak boat or bushwack rig (or any part thereof) within
500 yards of any stake blind or shore blind in Harford and
Cecil Counties. Any gun which cannot be habitually raised
and fired from the shoulder and any gun larger than number
ten gauge or rifle of any description found in the vicinity
of the areas of wild water fowl shall be confiscated by any
officer of this State and delivered to the Game Warden.

(b) The Clerks of the Circuit Court of Frederick, Mont-
gomery, and Washington Counties, upon the application of
any resident of Frederick, Montgomery and Washington
Counties, being the owner of any skiff or row-boat as herein
allowed to be used in hunting of wild waterfowl on the
waters of the Monocacy and Potomac River in Frederick
County and on the waters of the Potomac River in Mont-
gomery and Washington Counties, shall issue to said appli-
cants a license under the seal of his Court to gun for and
shoot at wild water fowl from such boat, the cost of which
shall be Five Dollars (|5.00) for each and every boat, and
in addition to the moneys received from licenses aforesaid
the Clerk of the Court shall collect and retain in lieu of
all compensation the sum of Fifty Cents (50c) for issuing
said license. Every licensee shall be required to paint his