EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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sheriff, as the case may be, shall be entitled to the same fees

for the taking and selling such property as are allowed to the

sheriff of the said county when the offense is committed, for

seizing and selling personal property under a writ of fieri

facias; provided, that when any person or persons composing

such band or bands as aforesaid shall be arrested as provided in

this Act, the constable or sheriff making such arrest or arrests

shall, upon request of such person or persons so arrested, take

him or them before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said

county, and if the person or persons so arrested, or any other

person, shall at any time or within five days thereafter take

out such license as provided in Section I of this Act for the

band of which the person or persons so arrested are members,

then the constable or sheriff, as the case may be. upon the pro-

duction to him of a written notice signed by the said Clerk that

a license has been issued for the band of which the person or per-

sons in his custody are members, and the payment to him of all

cost and expenses of the arrest or arrests or the seizure of the

property, as aforesaid, and the further sum of ten dollars for

each and every person so arrested and in his custody, shall re-

Shall release
prisoners.

lease such person or persons, and shall pay over the amount or

amounts so collected, after deducting all costs, as aforesaid, as

the same would be paid were it a fine imposed by the Circuit

Court.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall not be necessary

for a conviction for violations of any of the provisions of this

No permanent

Act for the State to prove that any person or persons charged

place of
abode.

with any such violation have no permanent place of abode in

this State, but the burden of proving that such person or per-

sons have a permanent place of abode in this State shall be

upon the traverser; provided, however, that this Act shall not

apply to Allegany, Baltimore and Garrett Counties.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 486.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 260 and 261 of Article 2 of the

Code of Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel County,"

sub-title "Wild Fowl," as repealed and re-enacted with

amendments by Chapter 582 of the Acts of 1892 and to re-

enact the same with amendments, and to add a new section

to said Article to be designated as Section 261 A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 260 and 261 of Article 2 of the Code of