EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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than the State game warden or one of the deputy game wardens

of this State, and shall result in the collection of a fine or fines,

then one-half of such fine or fines, after the proper

court costs or magistrate's costs in the trial and

decision of the case shall have been paid, shall be paid to

the informer, and the other half to the school fund of the

county in which said prosecution is conducted ; and in case of

failure to pay such fine and costs the offender shall be com-

mitted by the Judge or justice of the peace who imposed the

fine to the county jail for ten days.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing in this Act shall

Game for
breeding put-

apply to any person who may have in his possession partridges,

poses ex-
empted.

quails or pheasants imported into the State of Maryland for

breeding purposes.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts

and all sections or parts of sections of the Code of Public Gen-

eral and Public Local Laws now in force in the State of Mary-

land inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act be and

the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 254.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections

24, 25 and 117 of Article 33 of the Code of Public General

Laws, title "Elections."

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Sections 24, 25 and 117 of Article 33 of the Code of

Public General Laws, title "Elections," be and the same are

hereby severally repealed and re-enacted with amendments

so as to read as follows :

24. In the counties a new general registration shall be made

New general

by each Board of Registry in the year 1906. Such new general

registration
of voters.

registration shall be made in the same way, at the same times

and under the same rules and provisions in all respects as are

in this Article prescribed for the first general registration.

25. In the City of Baltimore there shall be a general regis-

tration in the year 1906 and biennially thereafter. Before

To be held
biennially.

the November election, 1904 and 1905, and in the year 1907,

and in every alternate year thereafter, the last general regis-