1116 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 542

to and from the shooting grounds or to prevent shooting over or
gathering wounded or dead wild fowl, in good faith, from boats
propelled only by oars, and not equipped with either sails or
engines, when so used within a reasonable distance from, the
shore; and provided, second, that any person or persons other
than those convicted of violating the provisions of this Section
who may own in part or whole any boat, gun or paraphernalia
adjudged to be confiscated or ordered to be sold, as above pro-
vided, may intervene by sworn petition in the court of such
conviction within ten days thereafter, and make claim to such
boat or other property; and upon affirmative proof to the satis-
faction of the court of such ownership and of the further facts
that such owner or owners were, after making due inquiry as
above required, in fact without knowledge or notice of any kind,
direct or indirect, in advance of the use made or intended to
be made of such boat, guns or paraphernalia, and did not, di-
rectly or indirectly, participate therein or connive thereat,
and did not, in person or by agent, loan or rent or permit the
use of such boat, guns or paraphernalia to any person or per-
sons who, to his or their knowledge or information, intended or
were likely to violate the provisions of this Section, or who had
heretofore pursued wild fowl on the waters of this State in
boats and did not in person or by agent or employee act upon
such boat as the operator or navigator thereof, then and there-
upon the said court shall strike out the judgment of confisca-
tion as to so much of said boat, guns or paraphernalia as the
court shall from the evidence affirmatively find belongs to such
bona fide innocent owner, and shall order the sale only of the
remaining share or shares and interest in said boat, guns and
other paraphernalia; provided, that nothing herein contained
shall apply to sink boxes nor to motor boats running with the
wind while shooting over decoys, nor to retrieving or shooting
wounded wild "water fowl which have been wounded over de-
coys, if said sink boxes and motor boats running with the wind
while gunning over decoys or retrieving ducks, wounded or
killed over decoys occurs northward of a line drawn east and
west from Turkey Point, in Cecil County, and Locust Point,
in Harford County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws or parts of laws,
passed at this Session or at any previous sessions of the Legis-
lature, inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed, and that this
Act shall take effect from the 1st day of June, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.