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received by them for the issuance of the aforesaid licenses and
said moneys so received by the Comptroller shall be placed to
the credit of the State Game Protection Fund, and said Clerks
shall report to the State Game Warden the first of each and
every month the name and address of each licensee to whom
they have issued license the preceding month for a skiff or
rowboat, designating number of said license and description
of said boat.

40. PENALTIES. Any person violating any of the provisions
of Sections 37 to 39 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction before any Justice of the Peace of this
State shall be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25. 00)
nor more than Fifty Dollars! ($50. 00) for each and every of-
fense and each wild duck, goose, or brant so shot at, killed, or
had in possession shall constitute a separate offense under this
Section.

41. SHOOTING FROM BOAT PROHIBITED. It shall be unlaw-
ful, purposely or unnecessarily, to disturb in the waters of
this State or to hunt any water fowl in or from any boat of
any description within the limits of the State of Maryland
in any boat propelled by or equipped with sail or engines of any
kind within the said limits. Nothing herein shall prohibit the
retrieving of wounded or dead wild water fowl from, any boat
propelled by motor. Provided, however, said wild waterfowl
was wounded or killed from a stationary blind on land or water
or from a sneak boat as provided by law.

(a) It shall be unlawful for the owner of any boat pro-
pelled by or equipped with sail or engines of any kind, or of
any share or interest in such boat, to use or permit the use of
such boat for any of the acts above prohibited or to loan or
hire such boat at any time to any person without making due
inquiry into the purpose of those applying for the use of such
boat and becoming satisfied that those applying for the use
of such boat intend to use the same exclusively for other pur-
poses than the violation of the provisions of this Section and
that such persons are not equipped with and do not place in
such boats any guns or ammunition suitable for shooting water
fowl.

(b) If any such power boat impelled by sail or engines of
any description be found in or near the waters where water
fowl are then and there using or bedding having on board
guns or other paraphernalia commonly employed in the hunt-
ing of water fowl, or if any shots shall be fired from any such
boat at or in the vicinity of water fowl where bedded in the
waters aforesaid, or if any such boat propelled by engine or