ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 1157

rendered during the legal hunting season for water fowl. The
ducking police, so appointed, shall bo compelled to patrol the
waters known as the Susquehanna Flats, and other territories
adjoining, 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 war-
rant.

8. The Clerks of the Circuit Courts of Harford and Cecil
Counties shall, on the first day of June, 1927, and on the
first day of each and every month thereafter, transmit to the
Comptroller of this State all moneys received by them for the
issuance of gunning rig licenses. Said Clerk shall report
to the Game Warden the first of each and every month, the
name and address of each licensee to whom he has issued
license the preceding month for a sink-box or sneak-boat, desig-
nating number of said license and description of boat. Eight
Hundred ($800) Dollars of the amount so received from each
of the said counties by the Comptroller shall be placed to
the credit of a separate fund to be known as the State Game
Protection Fund and shall be disbursed by the said State
Comptroller from time to time on warrants signed by the
State Game Warden of Maryland and shall be used for the
purpose of paying the Ducking Police provided for in Section
5 of this Act. The balance so received from Cecil County shall
be paid by the Comptroller to the County Treasurer of Cecil
County to be paid by him to the Ducking Police appointed
for the purpose of patrolling the Elk and Bohemia Rivers;
and the balance collected from Harford County shall be paid
to the Treasurer of said county to be used as the County Com-
missioners of said county may direct.

9. Any person convicted before any Justice of the Peace
of this State for violating any of the provisions of this Act,
shall be fined not less than Fifty ($50) Dollars, nor more
than One Hundred ($100) Dollars and costs for each and
every offense, and shall stand committed to jail until such
fine and costs have been paid; and in addition to said fine
and costs, the Justice of the Peace shall older the officer mak-
ing the arrest and securing the conviction to seize and hold
in custody all vessels, crafts, sink-boxes, sneak-boats, decoys
and all other paraphernalia used in violation of the provi-
sions of this Act, and will exclude the gunning rig from the