694 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 410

Code. Said appointments shall be made, however, only when
funds are available and provided for in the budget.

All Deputy Game Wardens shall perform such duties as the
Game Warden may designate, including the guarding of
streams and waters of the State against pollution.

The Game Warden shall issue to each person so appointed
. as Deputy Game Warden a commission and badge and
transmit such commission to the Clerk's office of the Circuit
Court for the County in which said Deputy Game Warden so
appointed has his legal residence, or to the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, if residing in Balti-
more City, and may revoke and annul any such appointment
at any time he may desire; but in the case of those persons
under the Merit System at the time of the passage of this Act,
only in accordance with the provisions of Article 64A of the
Code.

38. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions
of Sections 24 to 37 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction before any Justice of the Peace of the
County or City where the offense was committed, shall be
fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25. 00) nor more
than one Hundred Dollars ($100. 00) and costs for each
and every offense. Any person who fails to pay the fine so
imposed shall stand committed to jail until the fine and costs
shall have been paid, but such imprisonment shall not exceed
sixty days for any one offense.

41. All owners of riparian rights, their lessees or licensees
on the waters of this State shall, by virtue of said ownership,
be first entitled to make a choice of the "set" or position
in front of the property of which they are the owners of the
riparian rights, lessees or licensees, for the purpose to erect,
set or maintain booby, brush or stake blind or blinds, pro-
vided, that said riparian owners, their lessees or licensees shall
; avail themselves of said choice of localities and clearly mark
the same on said waters by erecting a stake, on which shall
. appear the license number of each blind and the licensee's name
as hereinafter provided on or before October 10th of each and
. every year, and said blind or blinds licensed prior to October
10th must be erected on or before November 10th and said
blind or blinds licensed after October 10th must be erected
on or before thirty days thereafter, except as herein provided.

(a) For the protection of shoreowners, their lessees or li-
censees, desiring to locate a blind or blinds on their shore,
the purchase of a license as "herein provided and the establish-
ment of a stake on which shall be painted the license number
and the name of the licensee, such stake not to exceed the