148 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 91

any floating device towed by a power boat or a sail boat for
the purpose of hunting wild water fowl, therefrom; provided,
it shall be lawful to use sink box, sink boat, sneak boat or
bushwhack rig on the Susquehanna Flats. And it shall be law-
ful to use sneak boat or bushwhack rig on the waters of the
Elk and Sassafras Rivers in Cecil County; provided, however,
it shall be unlawful for more than four persons to hunt wild
water fowl from any blind located on land, or from any sink
box or sneak boat or bushwhack rig in any one day. Any gun
which cannot be habitually raised and fired from the shoul-
der and any gun larger than number ten gauge found in the
vicinity of the resting and feeding areas of wild water fowl
may be confiscated by any officer of this State and delivered
to the Game Warden.

Provided, however, it shall be lawful to hunt wild water
fowl on the waters of the Potomac River in Frederick Coun-
ty and Montgomery County, and on the waters of the Mon-
ocacy 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 and Montgomery County upon the ap-
plication of any resident of Frederick County or Montgomery
County, respectively, 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 and Montgomery
Counties 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 aforesaid, 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 re-
quired to paint his name and license number on some promi-
nent 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 and
Montgomery 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 re-
ceived by the Comptroller shall be placed to the credit of 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 has issued li-
cense the preceding month for a skiff or row boat, designating
number of said license and description of said boat.