792 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 359

CHAPTER 359.

AN ACT to regulate the hunting and shooting of ducks in the
waters of the Patuxent River and its tributaries and to pro-
vide for the licensing and regulating of duck blinds in said
waters, and to repeal Chapter 488 of the Acts of 1920 relat-
ing; to duck blinds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That any person desiring to erect and maintain a duck
blind on the shores of the Patuxent River and its tributaries
or in the waters thereof shall apply to the clerk of the Court
of the county in which the blind is to be located, annually, for
a license and to pay the said clerk the sum of five ($5.00) dol-
lars for each blind erected or to be erected, and a fee of twenty-
five cents for issuing the same.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person shall
erect a blind in the waters opposite the property of another
without the written permission of the owner before the first
day of November of each year or within three hundred yards
of another licensed blind, the distance to be measured by shore
line, if blind is on the shore, or by air line, if erected in the
water.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever any blind
shall be erected in water five feet deep, or more, at mean low
tide, all stakes or posts used in erecting said blind shall be
removed by the owner at close of each duck season.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be unlaw-
ful to shoot ducks on any days except Mondays, Wednesdays
and Saturdays of each week during the open season.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all licenses and
fines accruing under this Act shall be paid to the County Com-
missioners of the county wherein license was issued or fine im-
posed, said receipts to be applied to the road fund of said
county.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be unlaw-
ful for any person to shoot from any licensed blind without the
consent of the licensee, and anyone violating the provisions of
this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be fined not less than five ($5.00) dollars nor more than
twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, and in default of payment of said
fine be imprisoned in the county jail not less than five clays.