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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
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1872.] OF THE SENATE. 743
The bill entitled an Act for the better protection of birds
in Frederick county, together with the proposed Senate
amendments thereto, which had been' non-concurred in by
the Home, beg leave to report that they concur in recom-
mending the following:
That the Senate recede from the proposed amendments of
that Body, and that the following bill be adopted as a substi-
tute therefor.
A bill entitled an Act for the better protection of birds and
rabbits in Frederick and Anne Arundel counties.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall not be lawful for any person in Frede-
rick and Anne Arundel counties, to shoot, kill, or in any
way trap or distroy any blue-bird, swallow, martin, robin,
cat-bird, wood-pecker, Sparrow, wren, whip-poor-will, dove,
or any insectivorous birds at any season of the year under
the penalty of two dollars lor each bird so killed, taken or
destroyed.
SEC. 2. -And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for
any person to kill or destroy any pheasants or partridges be-
tween the first day of January and the fifteenth day of Oc-
tober, or any rabbits between the first day of February and
the first day of October, under the penalty of five dollars for
each and every pheasant or partridge so killed, taken, or de-
stroyed.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That no person shall at any time
during the year, willfully destroy the eggs or nests of any
such birds as are named in this Act, within the said counties,
under the penalty of two dollars for each and every oftence.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the possession by any per-
son within the counties aforesaid, of any of the birds men-
tioned in this Act, as shot, killed, or otherwise destroyed,
shall be prima facie evidence to commit under this act.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any person offending
.against any or the provisions of this Act, and being convict-
ed thereof before any Justice of the Peace, in the counties of
.Frederick or Anne Arundel, upon the oath or affirmation of
one or more witnesses, shall forfeit the fine or fines mentioned
in this Act, one half to the use of the School Fund of said
counties, and the other half to the use of the informer, and
if the offender, after being convicted of the crime, shall re-
fuse to pay the said fines so imposed by this Act, he or they
shall be committed to the jail of the county in which the
crime was committed, for every such offence, for the space of
ten days. Provided, however, that such convictions shall be
.made within sixty days after committing the offence.

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