612 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 340

turn during three gunning days, and the gunners shall be sub-
jected to such additional fines and penalties as are hereinafter
set forth, or otherwise provided by law.

It shall be unlawful for any person to be on said waters desig-
nated as the Susquehanna Flats on any day except the legal
gunning day, on any vessel or craft on which are connected
or in tow any hunting paraphernalia which is ordinarily used
for the hunting of water fowl; provided, however, that for
the purpose of securing a berth for the legal gunning days,
as herein defined, crafts or hunting outfits may, on the even-
ing preceding the legal gunning day, use the main channel
to reach the waters above a line from Point Concord Light-
house in Harford County to Stump's Point in Cecil County,
and also use the main channel to reach the waters below a
line from Locust Point in Harford County to Turkey Point
in Cecil County. No person shall cross these lines until 3. 15
A. M. of the legal gunning day.

SEC. 4. Any person, or their assigns, who is a bona fide
owner of land bounding upon the Chesapeake Bay or the
Northeast River adjacent to the lines as herein provided, may
in the months of October or November in each year, select
and mark any point on their shore as reserved for their gun-
ning during the season of or immediately following said se-
lection or marking as aforesaid; and thereafter such owner
or his assigns shall have during said season exclusive right
to station a gunning rig or craft, or set decoys, and gun with-
in one-quarter (14) mile from shore, which said one-quarter
mile line shall run at right angles to the shore line from the point
so designated or selected by said land owner.

SEC. 5. The Governor of this State shall every two years
with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint two duck-
ing police for Cecil County and two ducking police for Har-
ford County, who shall also be appointed by the Game War-
den, as Deputy Wardens, and shall be compelled to report to
the Game Warden and to enforce the conservation laws of
this State under the supervision of the Game Warden. Such
ducking police and deputy wardens so appointed by the Gov-
ernor, shall not receive a salary from the State or Counties,
but shall be paid the sum of Four Hundred Dollars ($400. 00)
each, from the State Game Protection Fund, for services render-
ed during the legal hunting season for water fowl. The ducking
police, so appointed, shall be compelled to patrol the waters
known as the Susquehanna Flats, and other territories ad-
joining, when the Game Warden of this State so requests, and
enforce all the game and fish laws of this State, and shall be
empowered to make arrests for a violation of this Act and the
game and fish laws of this State without a warrant.