614 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 438]

person violating any of the provisions of this section on convic-
tion thereof shall be fined not more than ten dollars for each
and every offense, or be confined in the county jail for a period
of not more than twenty days, in the discretion of the Court,
said fine to be recovered in the name of the State before a jus-
tice of the peace, one-half of the fine to go to the informer, the
other one-half for the benefit of the public school fund of the
county.

SEC. 55. It shall not be lawful for any person, corporation
or company to sell for the purpose of being carried out of the
county, or to carry out of the county for the purpose of selling
or to trap, shoot or in any manner catch or kill, or have in
possession, any partridge or quail, woodcock or rabbit after the
same has been killed, for any purpose, except for consumption
or food within Montgomery county; provided, however, that
nothing herein shall prevent the barter or sale of said game for
home consumption only by residents of said county; provided
also, that nothing herein shall prevent non-residents who have a
license to hunt in said county from taking with them out of said
county, or to carry out of the county for the purpose of selling
killed in said county, and any person, corporation or company
violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before
any justice of the peace of said county shall be fined not less
than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every
offense, one-half of said fine to go to the informer or informers
upon whose evidence the conviction is obtained, the other one-
half to go to the county school fund.

SEC. 55A. It shall not be lawful for any person not a bona
fide resident of said county to hunt or shoot any partridge or
quail, pheasant, woodcock, wild turkey, wild duck, squirrel,
rabbit, raccoon or opossum in said county without having first
obtained from the clerk of the Circuit Court for said county a
license permitting the person therein named to hunt or shoot
said game in said county for one year from the day on which
such license was issued, and such license shall not be trans-
ferable. The person named therein or party procuring such
license shall pay to said clerk therefor the sum of fifteen dollars
per year, which amount shall be paid by said clerk to the Board
of School Commissioners of said county for the use of the pub-
lic schools of said county, and fifty cents to the clerk as a fee
for issuing such license; and any non-resident convicted before
a justice of the peace of said county for gunning therein with-
out first having obtained the license aforesaid shall be fined
twenty-five dollars for each and every offense; on failure to pay