PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1025

gunning season as fixed by Section 279, be allowed to anchor,
or otherwise make stationary, any sink box, sneak boat or any
other vessel or craft on the waters lying northward of the line
named in Section 278, after 4.30 A. M. on Monday, Wednesday
or Friday, prior to the first day of January of said gunning
season, and on and after the first day of January on any
Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday after 4.30 A. M. and
before the morning of the day next succeeding each of the said
days above specified; after 4.30-A.M. on any Monday, Wednesday
or Friday, prior to the first day of January of said gunning
season; and on and after the first day of January on any Mon-
day, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday after 4.30 A. M., for the
purpose of procuring a berth, and that any person holding a
license making stationary any sink box, sneak boat or any other
vessel or craft on the waters lying northward of the line named
in Section 278, shall be required to only display such lights or
signals on said crafts as required by the Federal Laws of the
United States of America, governing navigation, and any per-
son violating this Section shall be subject to a fine of not less
than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars.

SEC. 300-B. And be it enacted, That all boats, sink boxes,
sneak boats or any other vessel or craft used for the purpose
of gunning on the waters lying northward of the line named in
Section 278, propelled by gas, gasoline, naphtha, steam or other
mechanical engines shall be required to muffle their exhausts
and subdue and suppress other noise ensuing or emanating
therefrom to such an extent that the ducks or warterfowl will
not be disturbed while such crafts are moving over or made
stationary on the gunning grounds aforesaid, and any person
violating this Section shall be fined not less than $25.00 and
not more than $50.00, to be recovered by a Justice of the Peace,
one-half of said fine to be paid the officer making the arrest
and the other half to those assisting in making the arrest and
in addition to the said fine the person violating this Section, as
well as the craft and the entire gunning outfit, shall be de-
prived of the rights granted under the said ducking license for
the next three succeeding gunning days, and for the said period
of three gunning days the said persons, crafts and gunning out-
fit shall be considered to be without license; and in case of any
violation of this Section the penalty shall be the same as im-
posed upon persons and crafts gunning without licenses, and
the said prohibition shall not be relieved or said by an appeal.