EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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dollars, and on failure to pay such fine and costs shall be

committed by the Justice of the Peace before whom the pro-

ceedings are held for not less than five days nor more than

two months; provided, that any land owner may invite a

non-resident of the county to gun with him, and as his guest

upon his own land, and provided further the owner of any

duly licensed blind in any of the rivers of the county may

invite non-residents of the county to shoot wild fowl from

his blind.

82. Any Justice of the Peace of this State in and for Anne

Arundel County shall have the jurisdiction to hear and de-

Justices of the
peace to try

termine all prosecutions for the purpose of fines and costs col-

all violators

lectible under these sections; and all such fines and costs are

of same laws

hereby expressly made subject to the provisions of Section 8 of

Chapter 293 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Man--

land passed at the Session of 1896 ; and in all cases where such

prosecutions are begun or instituted by any other person than

the Stale Game Warden or his deputies and shall result in the

collection of a fine or fines, then one-half of such line or

fines shall be paid to the informer, and the other half to

the school funds of the county, and in all cases the cost of

the case shall be added to the fine or lines imposed, and in

the event of failure to pay such fine, fines or cost imposed, the

offender shall be committed by the Justice of the Peace who

imposed the fine, fines and costs to the county jail for a period

of not more than ten days, except in the cases otherwise pro-

vided for.

82A. The Deputy Game Wardens in and for Anne Arundel

are hereby invested with all police powers invested by law

Invested with

in any police of this State for the purpose of enforcing the

police powers

game laws of this State and county.

826. Nothing in this Act shall apply to any person who

may have in his possession any species of game bird or animal

Used for
breeding pur-

imported into the State of .Maryland for breeding purposes.

poses.

82C. All Acts or parts of Acts and all sections and parts

of sections of the Code of Public General, or Public Local

Laws now in force in the State of Maryland inconsistent with

any of the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby

repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15, 1904.