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Session Laws, 1931
Volume 580, Page 1337   View pdf image (33K)
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ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.               1337

Provided, however, it shall be lawful to hunt wild fowl on
the waters of the Potomac River in Frederick County from a
skiff or row boat propelled by oar or oars only. The Clerk of
the Circuit Court of Frederick County upon the application of
any resident of Frederick County, being the owner of any
skiff or row boat as herein allowed to be used in hunting of
water fowl on the waters of the Potomac River in Frederick
County shall issue to said applicant a license under the seal of
his court to gun for and shoot at water fowl from such boat, the
cost of which shall be five ($5.00) dollars for each and every
boat and in addition to the moneys received from licenses afore-
said, the Clerk of the Court shall collect and retain in lieu of
all compensation, the sum of fifty (50c.) cents for issuing said
license. Every licensee shall be required to paint his name and
license number on some prominent part of said skiff or row
boat in large, legible letters and numbers, to correspond with
said name and number of license issued to him. Said license
shall only be valid during the open season provided by law for
the hunting of water fowl in this State.

The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Frederick County shall,
on the first day of June, 1931, and on the first day of each
and every month thereafter, transmit to the Comptroller of
this State all moneys received by him for the issuance of the
aforesaid licenses; said moneys so received by the Comptroller
shall be placed to the credit to the State Game Protection Fund;
said Clerk shall report to the State Game Warden the first of
each and every month the name and address of each licensee to
whom he lias issued license the preceding month for a skiff or
row boat, designating number of said license and description
of said boat.

(j) Any person violating any of the provisions of this sec-
tion shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic-
tion before any Justice of the Peace of this State, shall be fined
not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred
dollars ($100.00) for each and every offense and each wild
duck, goose, swan or brant so shot at, killed or had in posses-
sion shall constitute a separate offense under this section.

40. (b) No booby, brush or stake blind shall be licensed
or erected in the waters of Chester River and its tributaries
within the jurisdiction of Kent County except Grey's Inn
Creek, northwest prong of Lankford's Bay, Comegy's Bight
and between a line drawn from Beaver Dam in Hail Creek,
Kent County, to Stony Bar Bluff at the mouth of Jackson's

 

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