﻿RESIDENT 
  LICENSES. 
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  to 
  enforce 
  the 
  provisions 
  of 
  the 
  act, 
  and 
  these 
  officers, 
  commonly 
  

   known 
  as 
  ducking 
  police, 
  were 
  authorized 
  to 
  seize 
  any 
  sink 
  box 
  or 
  

   boat 
  used 
  in 
  violation 
  of 
  law. 
  The 
  issue 
  of 
  licenses 
  was 
  thus 
  restricted 
  

   to 
  residents 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  Nonresidents 
  were 
  not 
  denied 
  the 
  privilege 
  

   of 
  hunting 
  waterfowl, 
  but 
  they 
  could 
  not 
  hunt 
  successfully 
  without 
  

   sink 
  boxes 
  or 
  boats; 
  and, 
  as 
  these 
  could 
  only 
  be 
  used 
  under 
  license, 
  

   residents 
  who 
  alone 
  were 
  authorized 
  to 
  obtain 
  licenses 
  could 
  control 
  

   hunting 
  and 
  charge 
  any 
  fees 
  the} 
  T 
  saw 
  fit 
  for 
  their 
  boxes 
  or 
  boats. 
  

  

  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 
  licensed 
  residents 
  of 
  the 
  county. 
  These 
  

   licenses 
  were 
  issued 
  at 
  a 
  cost 
  of 
  $30 
  each. 
  (Laws 
  of 
  1876, 
  chap. 
  78.) 
  

   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 
  Magothy, 
  Severn, 
  and 
  

   South 
  rivers. 
  It 
  is 
  noticeable, 
  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. 
  (Laws 
  of 
  1882, 
  chap. 
  400; 
  1886, 
  chap. 
  366.) 
  

  

  In 
  1878 
  residents 
  of 
  Cecil 
  County 
  were 
  required 
  to 
  obtain 
  licenses, 
  at 
  

   a 
  cost 
  of 
  $10, 
  to 
  use 
  sink 
  boxes 
  on 
  the 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  Elk 
  and 
  Bohemia 
  

   rivers 
  (Laws 
  of 
  1878, 
  chap. 
  292); 
  and 
  in 
  1880 
  similar 
  $10 
  licenses 
  were 
  

   required 
  in 
  Queen 
  Anne 
  County, 
  and 
  in 
  Cecil 
  and 
  Kent 
  counties 
  for 
  

   the 
  use 
  of 
  sink 
  boxes 
  on 
  the 
  Sassafras 
  River. 
  (Laws 
  of 
  1880, 
  chaps. 
  12 
  

   and 
  370.) 
  

  

  Turning 
  to 
  Canada, 
  mention 
  should 
  be 
  made 
  of 
  a 
  special 
  $5 
  license 
  

   which 
  came 
  into 
  use 
  in 
  the 
  Province 
  of 
  Quebec 
  in 
  1887." 
  This 
  license 
  

   differed 
  from 
  ordinary 
  resident 
  licenses 
  in 
  being 
  issued 
  only 
  for 
  killing 
  

   5 
  deer 
  and 
  5 
  caribou 
  in 
  excess 
  of 
  the 
  limit 
  prescribed 
  by 
  law. 
  The 
  fee 
  

   still 
  remains 
  the 
  same, 
  but 
  since 
  1895 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  deer 
  and 
  caribou 
  

   has 
  been 
  reduced 
  to 
  3. 
  

  

  The 
  system 
  of 
  general 
  resident 
  hunting 
  licenses 
  apparently 
  origi- 
  

   nated 
  in 
  Michigan 
  in 
  1895 
  b 
  as 
  a 
  measure 
  to 
  restrict 
  the 
  slaughter 
  of 
  

   deer. 
  In 
  his 
  annual 
  report 
  for 
  1894, 
  Charles 
  S. 
  Hampton, 
  game 
  and 
  

   fish 
  warden 
  of 
  Michigan, 
  said: 
  

  

  I 
  am 
  of 
  the 
  opinion 
  that 
  a 
  law 
  licensing 
  all 
  hunters, 
  those 
  of 
  our 
  own 
  State 
  being 
  

   charged 
  a 
  mere 
  nominal 
  fee, 
  while 
  nonresidents 
  are 
  compelled 
  to 
  pay 
  twenty-five 
  dol- 
  

  

  « 
  Reference 
  may 
  here 
  be 
  made 
  to 
  a 
  somewhat 
  different 
  form 
  of 
  license 
  which 
  was 
  

   proposed 
  in 
  Colorado 
  in 
  1885, 
  but 
  not 
  adopted. 
  Licenses 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  issued 
  to 
  immi- 
  

   grants 
  traveling 
  in 
  unsettled 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  allowing 
  them 
  to 
  kill 
  game 
  during 
  

   the 
  close 
  season 
  for 
  periods 
  not 
  exceeding 
  30 
  days 
  at 
  a 
  cost 
  of 
  $5 
  or 
  $10. 
  ( 
  Am. 
  Field, 
  

   XXIII, 
  p. 
  121, 
  Feb. 
  7, 
  1885.) 
  

  

  & 
  It 
  was, 
  however, 
  advocated 
  in 
  Illinois 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time. 
  Section 
  7 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Blow 
  

   Bill,' 
  which 
  failed 
  to 
  pass 
  the-Illinois 
  legislature 
  of 
  1895, 
  contained 
  & 
  provision 
  for 
  a 
  

   $1 
  license 
  for 
  all 
  persons 
  except 
  owners 
  or 
  occupants 
  of 
  cultivated; 
  farms 
  hunting 
  on. 
  

   their 
  own 
  lands. 
  (Am. 
  Field, 
  XLIII, 
  p. 
  124, 
  Feb. 
  9, 
  1895.) 
  

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