EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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said county a license permitting the person therein named and

sufficiently described for the purposes of identification to

shoot said game in said county for the period of one year from

the clay on which said license was issued, and such license shall

not be transferable. The person named therein, or the party

procuring such license, shall pay to the said Clerk thereof the

sum of ten dollars per year, which amount shall be paid by

said Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners and by them

credited to the fund for the payment of the bounties prescribed

in Sections 18 and 19 of the Acts of 1902, Chapter 276; and

shall, in addition, pay to the Clerk a fee of fifty cents as his

compensation for the issuing of such license, the form for

which shall be appointed by the State game warden and fur-

nished by said Clerk ; and any non-resident convicted before a

justice of the peace of said county or other court of competent

jurisdiction for gunning therein without having complied with

the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis-

demeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined ten dol-

lars for each and every such offense. which fine shall be paya-

ble two-thirds to the County Commissioners of Allegany

County, to be by them credited to the fund for the payment

of bounties heretofore set forth in this Act, and one-third to

the informer, except as provided in Section 8 of Chapter 293 of

the Acts of 1896; on failure to pay said fine and costs, the of-

Penalty for

fender shall be committed to the county pail for the term of

failure to pay
fine and costs.

ten days for each offense, or until fine and costs are paid.

99D. It shall be unlawful within said county at any time

to permit dogs to run at large, and any birds or mammals

killed, maimed or injured by dogs so running at large in viola-

Owners of

tion of this section shall be deemed and considered to have been

dogs liable.

killed or injured by the owners of said clogs, who shall, in the

event of their conviction before any magistrate of said county

of the offense herein set out, be deemed guilty of a misde-

meanor, and be fined five dollars for each bird or mammal so

maimed, injured or killed, and in default shall be sentenced to

ten flays in jail, or until said fine and costs are paid. Dogs

making their homes with or at the residence or tenement of

any residents of this county shall be considered as the property

of said resident or tenant, and as such subject to the provisions

of this section.

16. Any person violating any of the sections of Chapter

276 of the Acts of 1902, or the amendments thereto, and being

convicted thereof before any justice of the peace of said county

Deemed guilty
of of misde-

or court of competent jurisdiction, shall be deemed guilty of a

meanor.

misdemeanor, and shall forfeit the fines in this Act and its