HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 988

a ted repeating shot-gun capable of holding more than three
shells, the magazine of which has not been cut off or plugged
with a one-piece metal or wooden filler incapable of removal
through the loading end thereof so as to reduce the capacity of
said gun to not more than three shells at any one time in the
magazine and chamber combined. It shall be unlawful to use
more than ten live decoys on any one property at any one time.
No water fowl, except crippled birds not otherwise retrievable,
shall be shot while resting on water or land. It shall be unlaw-
ful to use any airplane, sink box or sink boat, or floating device,
towed by a power boat or a sail boat for the purpose of hunt-
ing wild water fowl therefrom; provided, however, it shall be
lawful to use sneak boat or bushwhack rig on the Susque-
hanna Flats and on the waters of the Elk and Sassafras Rivers
in Cecil County and on the waters of the Potomac and Monoc-
acy Rivers in Frederick County and on the waters of the
Potomac River in Montgomery and Washington Counties. It
shall be unlawful to use any decoy, sneak boat or bushwhack
rig (or any part thereof) within 500 yards of any stake blind
or shore blind in Harford and Cecil Counties while gunning.
Any gun which cannot be habitually raised and fired from the
shoulder and any gun larger than number ten gauge found in
the vicinity of the areas of wild water fowl shall be confiscated
by any officer of this State and delivered to the Game Warden.

The Clerks of the Circuit Court of Frederick, Montgomery
and Washington Counties, upon the application of any resi-
dent of Frederick, Montgomery and Washington Counties,
being the owner of any skiff or row-boat as herein allowed to
be used in hunting of wild water fowl on the waters of the
Monocacy and Potomac River in Frederick County and on the
waters of the Potomac River in Montgomery and Washington
Counties, shall issue to said applicants a license under the
seal of his Court to gun for and shoot at wild water fowl from
such boat, the cost of which shall be Five Dollars ($5. 00)
for each and every boat, and in addition to the moneys re-
ceived from licenses aforesaid the Clerk of the Court shall
collect and retain in lieu of all compensation the sum of Fifty
Cents (50^) for issuing said license. Every licensee shall be
required 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 wild water
fowl in this State.

The Clerks of the Circuit Court of Frederick, Montgomery,
Washington, Harford, and Cecil Counties shall on the first day
of July, 1943, and on the first day of each and every month
thereafter transmit to the Comptroller of the State all moneys