2026 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 692
or maintain more than two booby, brush, or stake blinds in
or over the waters of this State, however, the issuance of two
blinds shall not apply to co-partnership, associations, or corpo-
rations. Such license shall be void on the thirtieth day of
June of each year following the date of issuance. Said Clerk
shall not issue a license for any blind until July 1st of each
year and shall issue license in rotation as applications are
received. Said applicant for said license shall certify in writ-
ing to said Clerk when making application for said license that
he is the owner, of the legal amount of shore front as required
by law, and if a lessee or licensee making application for
license on or before October 10 of each year he shall present
to said Clerk a written permission from the owner of the shore,
or his authorized agent, where said applicant desires a license
to erect said blind or blinds on the waters off shore of said
owner's property, for use of shore front for purpose of erect-
ing a blind or blinds on shore or water and shall certify that
the owner of said shore has the required distance of shore
line in conformance with the law. Such license shall not be
transferable and if used or presented by any person other
than the person to whom it was issued, such license shall be
confiscated by the Director or any deputy game warden,
constable, or other officer who shall find such licenses being
used illegally and the blind for which said license was issued
destroyed.
(b) The Clerks of the Circuit Court of the Counties shall
on the first day of July, 1943, and on the first day of each and
every month thereafter transmit to the [State Comptroller]
Game and Inland Fish Commission all moneys received by
them for such licenses. [And] Such monies shall be accounted
for by the said Commission to the Comptroller of the State, and
the mount so received by the Comptroller shall be placed to the
credit of a separate fund to be known as "The State Game Pro-
tection Fund", and shall be disbursed by the Comptroller from
time to time on warrants signed by the Director and counter-
signed by a representative of the Commission.
52. (Pusher's License. ) It shall be unlawful for any person
for hire to push, paddle, or convey on the waters of this State
for the purpose of hunting, shooting, or killing railidae or rail,
soro or reed birds without first procuring a license from the
Clerk of the Court of the County in which he resides, for which
he shall pay the sum of Two Dollars ($2. 00), and in addition
to the license fee so received the Clerk issuing same shall col-
lect and retain the sum of Fifty Cents (50¢) in lieu of all other
compensation, Two Dollars ($2. 00) of said amount to be for-
warded to the [Comptroller] Game and Inland Fish Commis-
sion of the State, then to be accounted for by the said Commis-
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