PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1323

CHAPTER 785.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 623

of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, at the

Session of 1910.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 623 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland passed at the Session of 1910, entitled An Act to
repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 724 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland at the Session of 1900,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

SEC. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person within
the limits of Talbot county to shoot, trap or in any manner kill
or have in possession any otter or muskrat, or hide or skin of
same, between the 15th day of March and the 15th day of
December, inclusive, in each and every year, save and except
that it shall be lawful for a dealer to have in his possession the
hide or skin of any otter or muskrat between the 15th day and
31st day of March, inclusive, in each and every year, so as he
may market the hides or skins of any otter or muskrat he may
have purchased; but it shall be unlawful for any such dealer
to purchase during the said period from the 15th day to the
31st day of March, inclusive, any hide or skin of any otter or
muskrat.

SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person within
the limits of Talbot county at any time between the hour of sun-
set and the hour of sunrise to shoot or shoot at, or in any man-
ner kill, except by trapping, any otter or muskrat; and it shall
also be unlawful for any person within the limits of Talbot
county to dig into or in any manner destroy the roof or any
part of a muskrat house or den.

SEC. 3. That any person violating either of the two pre-
ceding sections shall on conviction thereof before any justice of
the peace of Talbot county, be fined ten dollars for each offense',
to which shall be added the costs of prosecution, and the boat,
gun or other apparatus used by said offender shall be forfeited
and sold by the officer making the arrest, and the officer making,
the sale shall receive from, the proceeds of such sale twenty-five
per cent, of the proceeds of said sale, save and except that the
said officer's fee for making said sale shall not be less than.two
dollars nor more than ten dollars, and one-half, of all soch fines
and the proceeds from the forfeiture shall be paid to the
informer and the other half to the game wardens, and in case
where the offender does not pay the fine imposed the costs of
prosecution shall be paid from the sale of the forfeited property.