ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1169

to the license fee so received, the Clerk issuing same shall
collect and retain the sum of Fifty Cents (50c) in lieu of
all other compensation; Two Dollars ($2. 00) of said amount
to be forwarded to the Comptroller of the State, the first 'of each
and every month, to be placed to the credit of The State Game
Protection Fund. Each and every license shall expire December
1st after date of issuance and every person obtaining such license
shall paint the license number on each side of the bow of the
boat or skiff to be used for the purpose of pushing or paddling,
in figures not less than two inches high, and of such a character
and color that the same may be easily read. No person not
a bona fide resident of the State of Maryland shall be entitled
to have a license to push or paddle issued to him by the Clerk
of the Court.

Any person convicted before any Justice of the Peace of
this State for violating any of the provisions of this sub-title,
for which a specific penalty is not otherwise provided, shall be
fined not less than Fifty Dollars ($50. 00) nor more than One
Hundred Dollars ($100. 00) for each and every offense.

OTTER, MUSKRAT, RACCOON AND OPOSSUM.

62. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt any Otter
or Muskrat within the State of Maryland, or have the meat
or pelts in possession if trapped, caught or killed, between the
fifteenth day of March and the first day of January following
in each and every year, both dates exclusive, whether same
are trapped, caught or killed within the State of Maryland, or
any other State, territory or country; provided, however,
nothing herein contained shall prohibit the possession of the
skins of such animals for business purposes, when dried and
cured; provided, that any person may have in possession
green skins until the twenty-fifth day of March, following
the close of each season, in order to allow skins caught late
in the season to become cured for market.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot, or shoot
at, or in any manner kill or catch, except by trapping, any
muskrat, and it shall be unlawful for any person to dig for
any Muskrat or dig into or in any mariner molest or destroy
any part of a Muskrat house or den. And it shall further be
unlawful to have in possession any Muskrat hide or skins
that have been shot at or into or killed in any manner except
by trapping; and any Muskrat hide perforated with small