ART. 99] BIRDS AND GAME. 2209

1904, art. 99, sec. 18. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15 D.

25. No person shall shoot or in any manner catch or kill in this
State any water-rail or ortolan or reed-bird, rail-bird or rice-bird
between the first day of November and the first day of September
following, under a penalty of not less than one ($1) dollar nor more
than two ($2) dollars for each such birds so shot, caught or killed.
See notes to sec. 27.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1898. ch. 206, sec. 15 E.

26. No person shall in Baltimore city have in possession, expose
for sale, sell or buy, alive or dead, any pai'tridge or quail, wild turkey,
rabbit or hare between the twenty-fourth day of December and the
first day of November following, or any American pheasant or ruffled
grouse between the twenty-fourth day of December and the first day
of October following; or any woodcock between the twenty-fourth day
of December and the first day of July following and between the first
day of August and the first day of November following, or any wild
duck, wild goose, wild swan or wild brant between the tenth day of
April and the first day of November following, under a penalty of not
less than ($1) dollar nor more than ten ($10) dollars for each of the
aforesaid birds or game animals so had in possession, exposed for sale,
sold or bought; or any doves, flickers or yellow winged woodpeckers
between the twenty-fourth day of December and the fifteenth day of
August; or any snipe or plover, between the first day of May and the
fifteeth day of August; or any water-rail or ortolan, reed-bird or rail-
bird, or rice-bird between the first day of November and the first day
of September, or any squirrel between the first day of December and
the first day of September, under a penalty of not less than one ($1)
dollar nor more than two ($2) dollars for each of the aforesaid birds
or game animals so had in possession, exposed for sale, bought or sold.
See notes to sec. 27.

Ibid. sec. 20. 189S. ch. 200, sec. 15 F.

27. No person shall have in possession, expose for sale, sell or buy
any of the aforesaid birds or game animals, alive or dead in said city
of Baltimore, or in any of the aforesaid respective counties during the
aforesaid respective closed seasons or dates between which, in said
city or counties, it is made unlawful, by the preceding sections of this
sub-title, to shoot or have the same in possession, whether such birds
or game animals so had in possession, exposed for sale, sold or bought,
shall have been shot, or in any manner caught or killed in that county,
or in any other county of this State, or in any other State, territory
or country, under a penalty for the having in possession, exposing for
sale, selling or buying of each such bird or game animal, similar in
amount, respectively, to that hereinbefore made and provided for the
illegal shooting or having in possession of the same; but nothing in
this section or the preceding sections contained shall be so construed