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vided, however, that these ducks shall not be hunted, shot at,
shot or killed before the first day of November in the Elk river
below a straight line drawn across said river from Plum Point
to Locust Point, nor beyond the mouth of any of the small
creeks flowing into the said river, from any boat, vessel or craft
of any kind; and it shall not be lawful for any person or per-
sons, company or corporation to sell, or offer to sell, or expose
for sale, or to take, carry away, ship, express or by any means
remove beyond the limits of Cecil county, any of the birds or
game mentioned in this section at any time, except railbird,
reedbird, blackbird, snipe, wild rabbit and wild ducks; it shall
be lawful, however, at any season of the year to shoot black-
birds flying over or feeding upon grain fields.

38A. It shall not be lawful for any person who is not a res-
ident of said Cecil county to hunt, chase, shoot, shot at, trap,
kill, or in any manner take or destroy, any of the birds, game
or ducks mentioned in the foregoing section of this Act, unless
he or she shall have first obtained a license therefor, and the
license fee for said non-residents of Cecil county shall be ten
dollars ($10); and each and every such person who shall apply
for and be issued a license under this Act shall keep the same
about his person when exercising the privileges for which said
license was issued; and shall show the same when requested so
to do, and no person shall use said license other than the one
to whom the same was issued; and it shall not be lawful for
any person to shoot, trap or kill, or in any manner take or
destroy in any one day, any of the birds, game or ducks men-
tioned in this Act in excess of the following quantities, to wit :

12 quail or partridges; 4 pheasants or grouse; 12 woodcock,
15 snipe, 50 railbirds, 50 blackbirds, 5 wild rabbits, 20 Bar-
tram's sandpiper, commonly called grass plover; 20 marsh
plover, 6 squirrels, 25 each of teal, wood, mallard, sprigtail
and black ducks; 25 crowbill ducks.

38B. From and after the passage of this Act all licenses to
hunt, chase, shoot, trap, kill, or in any manner take or destroy,
any of the birds, game or ducks mentioned in Section 38 of
this Act shall be issued by the Cecil County Game Protective
Association, and the net revenue arising therefrom shall be
used by said associaiton for the protection, preservation and
restocking of Cecil county with birds and game; and that all
licenses issued by said association shall contain, the name and
residence of the applicant and such other marks of identifica-
tion as the said association from time to time shall prescribe
and be printed or written on said license, but no license shall
be issued by said association unless the same has been signed
by the applicant; and it shall be a part of the duties of the