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owner, or other person, shall use or employ any sink box, 

 or sneak boat of any description whatever, for the purpose 

 of shooting at wild water-fowl therefrom, northward of the 

 line named and described in section 380 . . . without first ob- 

 taining a license to so use and employ the same as is herein- 

 after provided.'' 



The license fee for a sink box was $20, and for a sneak 

 boat $5. Section 11 of the same act requires that they make 

 oath that they are bona fide residents of the State, and a fine 

 of $50 to $100 was provided for violating any of the license 

 provisions, one-half of which was to be paid to the informer 

 and one-half to the school commissioners of the county. 



In 1876, the use of sink boxes in the waters of Anne 

 Arundel county with certain exceptions, or on Chesapeake 

 Bay within the limits of the county, was restricted to li- 

 censed residents of the county, these costing $30 each. In 

 1882 licenses at $2 each (and a clerk's fee of 50 cents) were 

 required for the use of " booby or bush" blinds on the Mago- 

 thy, Severn, and South rivers. It is noticed, however, that 

 the issue of licenses for blinds was not restricted to residents, 

 and that the owner could extend to any person the privilege 

 of shooting from his blind during the open season. 



In 1878 residents of Cecil county were required to get 

 licenses, costing $10, to use sink boxes on the waters of the 

 Elk and Bohemia rivers; and in 1880 similar $10 licenses 

 had to be obtained in Queen Anne county, and in Cecil and 

 Kent counties for the use of sink boxes on the Sassafras 

 river. 



In Canada, a special $5 license came into use in the 

 Province of Quebec in 1887. This license was different 

 from ordinary licenses in being issued only for killing five 

 deer and five caribou in excess of the limit prescribed by 

 law. The system of general resident licenses apparently 

 originated in Michigan in 1895 as a measure to restrict the 

 slaughter of deer, but was being advocated in Illinois at 

 about the same time. 



