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Not lawful to
kill or destroy insectivorous
birds.
Pheasants or
partridges.
Eggs or nests
Possession
prima facie
evidence.
Persons
offending.
Fine.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 303.
AN ACT for the better protection of birds and rab-
bits in Frederick and Anne Arundel counties.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any person
in Frederick and Anne Arundel counties to shoot,
kill, or in any way trap or destroy, any blue bird,
swallow, martins, robin, cat-birds, wood-peckers,
sparrow, wren, whippor-wil, dove, or any insectiveras birds, at any season of the year, under the pen-
alty of two dollars for each bird so killed, taken or
destroyed.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall not be law-
ful for any person to kill or destroy any pheasants or
partridges between the first day of January and the
fifteenth day of October, 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 destroyed.
Sac. 3. And be it enacted. That no person shall at
any time during the year wilfully 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 offence.
SEC. 4. And he it enacted. That the possession by
any person within the counties aforesaid of any of
the birds mentioned in this Act, as shot, killed, or
otherwise destroyed, shall be prima facie evidence to
convict under this Act.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any person offending
against any of the provisions of this Act, and being
convicted thereof before any Justice of the Peace in
the Counties of Frederick or Anne Arundel, upon
the oath or affirmation of one or more witness, shall
forfeit the fine or fines named in this Act, one-half
to the use of the school fund of the said counties,
and the other half to the use of the informer; and
if the offender, after being convicted of the crime,
shall refuse to pay the said fines so imposed by this
Act, he or they shall be committed to the jail of the
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